Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delicious and malevolent self-inflicted agonies you describe in "The Appeal of Ordeal" [ESSAY, May 14], only marathon dancing is wholly understandable. It was done during the Depression in order to have a place to eat and sleep, standing...
...cousin Nicholas Ferraro, then Queens district attorney, gave her a job as an assistant prosecutor. She ran the special victims bureau, handling cases of child abuse and domestic violence so brutal and disturbing that she was unable to sleep at night. While on duty, however, Ferraro was a tough and effective prosecutor. "All the cops loved her," recalls Nick Ferraro. After four years, she was emotionally drained but politically invigorated: the experience, Ferraro says, made her liberal on social issues. She quit and ran successfully for Congress under the slogan FINALLY, A TOUGH DEMOCRAT...
Despite these misgivings, the people who know Ferraro would not lose any sleep if she were next in line for the presidency. "She is extremely competent," says Louisiana's Gillis Long, chairman of the House Democratic caucus. "She's a good word." And politician how in does the best Ferraro sense feel of about the the prospect? "I'm in awe," says Ferraro...
...that Mexico arrange for conversations between the U.S. and the Salvadoran rebels. This is true, and Haig vehemently refused my proposal. But then he quotes me as saying, "For years I have been waiting for an American to speak words such as these. Tonight I will go home and sleep well." As a supporter of negotiated settlements, I condemn Haig's aggressive attitude, and further, I never told him I would sleep well. On the contrary, Haig's approach would give anybody a nightmare...
...toppling bodies of mortally stricken soldiers, the bombed-out city of Cologne - is swept away by the final "knee play" as a new tree grows from the pages of a book. Wilson's dream world is informed by the perspective of the hypnagogic state: the sleep of reason may produce monsters, as Goya thought, but it can also call forth visions...