Word: sleeps
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...constraints of the solar system prevent the days from getting longer, can’t we all just sleep less? Caffeine has been working its magic for decades; science has now brought us Modafinil—what next? Hopefully the complete elimination of sleep. As Gustav Graves says in Die Another Day, you can sleep when you’re dead. Now that’s efficiency. God bless modernity. And economics...
...might have been Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki.) Addressing all kinds of subjects that were usually taboo in Hollywood, and then flipping the bird to them, Sturges somehow got his movie past the censors, leading Agee, in his parallel nation column, to infer that the Hays Office "has been raped in its sleep...
...night I feel so weary / That I never get out to play." And in another Pauline song, the sublimely frantic "Rumble Rumble Rumble," Betty practically falls off the piano top she's perched on, so agitated is she singing about how she can't get to sleep because the guy upstairs plays boogie-woogie all night: "He goes a-rumble, rumble, rumble on the bottom,/ He goes a-tinkle, tinkle, tinkle on the top./ Rumble, rumble, rumble, / Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, / Positively won't stop!" (Get this on the CD Spotlight on Betty Hutton: Great Ladies of Song...
...something that is an expression of an idea, which could have protection? Those questions were tested here and in making their decision, the judges have indirectly fallen on the side of freedom of artistic expression. It means that creative writers who are looking for sources of inspiration can still sleep easy...
...lost. The chief chided me for my flurry and bustle, saying I should learn from the serene and conscientious example set by my driver. As punishment, he ruled I would sleep once again in the road. In a concession to my pleas of being in a hurry, he added Bishaq and I would continue on our way at 4 a.m. Naturally, the next morning Bishaq, who had partied into the wee hours with yet more family and friends, was two hours late. And he grinned all the way to Ndjamena...