Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become, without visible effort, a top model. Director Sidney Lumet gave her the small but P highly important role of the lesbian Lakey in his film of Mary McCarthy's novel The T Group. Playing at moviemak-sing, the blond 19-year-old would waft on set without "sleep after a night on the town, and further outrage the intense young actresses in the cast by taking notes for a "what I did on my summer vacation" article to be published in Esquire...
...Ambassador was at first startled by my vehemence, but he gripped my hand warmly. "For years," he said fervently, "I have been waiting for an American to speak words such as these. Tonight I will go home and sleep well...
...only time I decided to sleep through class it didn't work. At 9:30 the infamous Lowell house fire alarms went off. When I finally realized that alarms were going off all over the building. I went and took a shower. A fire can't burn anyone in the shower...
...member of the summer staff. I usually went into the building after the mile walk having been up for six hours already. I had to spend 12 hours reporting, writing and pasting up stories. I begged out of staying late, pleading that if I didn't get some sleep, I would probably forget to take the baby out of the bathtub...
...WHILE Ludlum does get fired up. The scene in Bonn when Converse is charged with killing the U.S. ambassador to Germany is pretty good stuff. But for every interesting scene there are two or three with hackneyed, trite, cliched texts. From going into a whorehouse just to sleep and then bribing the prostitute (who we are told has children she takes to dance classes and school--read heart of gold) to get him an escape car, or to detailing the sexual habits of some of the generals, the "plot twists" are just unbelievable...