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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sleep deprivation can take you to mental zones even Rod Serling would avoid, dangling your mind on the cutting edge between psychic revelations and euphoric insanity. And this sleepy intoxication is only one benefit of the Allnighter experience...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: The Right Stuff | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

NEXT ARE STUDY breaks. The first one is for David Letterman--a man with just the "Far Side" mentality the Allnightist possesses, or soon will. Later, when slap-happy turns into bitterness at the sleeping, a quick water-gun, water-balloon raid on Store 24 is in order. Nothing lightens the prospect of six more hours without sleep like the sight of a dripping wet roommate stumbling and screaming downstairs to the laundry room, arms full of soggy flannel...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: The Right Stuff | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the mass of us lived our lives unperturbed by our powerlessness at the University, by the fact that the rules that determine how we live, study, eat and sleep for the better part of four years are handed down from on high...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: When Apathy Is Pathetic | 5/5/1986 | See Source »

...moved all our sleeping bags and stuff outside, and we still plan to stay here. Since we're not allowed to sleep or live in the shanties, we now regard them as pieces of art," one protester said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Leave Shanties | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

Untiring in their efforts to get a rise out of their viewers, the pantomime's merry pranksters once flashed, for less than a second, a subliminal message that said, "Spitting Image scriptwriters are incredibly good in bed. Go out and sleep with one now." Even off the air-waves, the Image-makers have frequently made waves. The BBC, for example, refused to play the group's only recording, in which a make-believe Prince Andrew crooned I'm Just a Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Stringing Along | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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