Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from friends or a normal routine, Mace argues. But instead of having a lot of people over for dinner, only one or two should be invited at a time. Physical activity should be encouraged to stimulate the appetite, prevent muscle contracture and bone fractures and promote sleep...
...example, the rest of Artifat finds out too. Perhaps the hallmark of this communal living is the scene in which the wedding guests gather around the nuptial bed, tossing advice and lewd jokes to the newlyweds blushing under the covers. Small wonder Martin rolls over and goes to sleep as soon as they've left the room...
Then there was the ever present pilot fish, the press, always asking how it felt, what you thought. Crazy. How could you tell them? When asked, "Are you glad to be home?" how could you curb your tongue from blurting out as your brain wanted to: "Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?" For four months, until the replacements came, you had been part of the multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon, you and 4,000 other Marines and sailors. The Navy brought you back on five ships by way of Key West, where you were to have a fleetingly...
...toll on the guerrillas. The deserted settlement is pockmarked with bomb craters and littered with spent shells, some measuring 10 ft. in length. Since bombs first began tearing the community apart three years ago, all its farmers and all but one of its 400 families have left. Rebels now sleep in blankets on the dirt floors amid mangled stoves and the carcasses of homes. They are forced to spend less time on training than on tending scant wheat crops or washing clothes. "I've told the freedom fighters to start cultivating and doing farm work," sighs Mohammed Anwar, while...
...view: the characters as they were in 1976, as they were refracted in Mehta's novel, as they will be distorted in the movie. He is even more interested in the need of both the Old World and the New to convert the other infidel and to sleep with the rich, silly American (who, the play suggests, will go to bed with any winner). As in Plenty, Hare is weakest when trying to show how his people get from one point in their lives to a radically different one and strongest when he hectors, beguiles, exhausts, persuades through...