Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is a shortage, but it affects the person and not the show," said Michelle L. Deskus '88, a technical director for one show and master electrician for two more. "Trying to do your best in simultaneous productions may mean getting less sleep...
...Saturday evening, Aug. 4, 1962, a 36-year-old actress took an overdose of barbiturates and died in her sleep. Twenty-three years later, the inquest still goes on. Did Marilyn Monroe kill herself? Was she murdered? British Journalist Anthony Summers provides some sensational theories, but he is obviously chary of conclusions and wary of lawsuits. Readers of Goddess will learn far more about Marilyn's fragmented life than of her sorry demise. Some of the tale is overfamiliar: the battered childhood, the teenage bride, the nude photos, the Hollywood parabola, the famous marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller...
...message was tapped out on an old-fashioned Morse telegraph key. It came from the province of Paktia in eastern Afghanistan and was received by a guerrilla listening post on the Pakistani border. "We have been without sleep for 48 hours," the report read. "It is the biggest battle of the war. We have lost many men, but we will not lose the war." The terse communication was signed by Maulana Jalaluddin Haqani, commander of an Afghan partisan group known as Hesbi Islam, or Islamic Party...
...organizers of the Chicago race: "It's just a natural extension of the aggression they take to their careers. Because they work, they have to train in the mornings, at lunch and at night. It's hell on your social life, and you don't get much sleep...
...Love, one of two songs on the album that are about children. Like the visionary folk art that decorates the record sleeve, these two tunes about little ones impart a deceptively cozy air that is undercut with a keen sardonic edge. "We are . . . creatures of love/ From the sleep of reason" is the way the refrain runs, and Little Creatures becomes an extended lullaby for rationality. This may not guarantee the record a lingering chart life, but it is rock at its most enterprising and numinous...