Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Imagine a future society brought up entirely in malls. Children would be born, the aged would die, families would eat, sleep and play within the confines of the shopping center. Eventually they would mutate into small, pale, big-eyed creatures, skin oily from a constant diet of Pepsi and pizza, bodies nearly muscleless from lives of total languor, fingers useful that can only change television channels and insert quarters into video games...
...shelter is temporary, designed to provide the homeless of Harvard Square with a place to sleep indoors until the cold weather ends. It is scheduled to close on April 17. Conveniently, the city of Cambridge has decided not to take action against the shelter for 60 days, Guernsey says. He calls it "a nice compromise...
...Palmer Dixon empties, we stumble Yardward with two Q-worlders and the guy who wore the "Save the Whales" shirt written in French. Music and the gentle muse of sleep compete for our consciousness, but only Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" remains firmly implanted...
...vignettes later, however, they swing back from the sarcasm verging on the theater of the absurd in Acting to the tender sincerity of Watching the SLEEPING Lover. As MAN sleeps, WOMAN contemplates him, musing. "You look like my child." The familiar form of the words--a monologue addressed to a silent lover--assists the poetry in the lines: "I embrace you in sleep; my arm moves with your breathing...
...think it unconscionable to allow people to sleep outside in the winter," Guernsey said yesterday, adding. "We propose to step in the breach until the City of Cambridge can come up with a realistic plan for a full-time shelter...