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Word: slumber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always said it was the devil's music. So why shouldn't the father of '50s rock 'n' roll look like every white kid's slumber-party dream of Satan? A slim body, supple as sin. Wavy hair, drenched in Valvoline and just full enough to hide those telltale horns. A face already etched with pain and promises. Cocoa-color skin drawn taut over Jack Palance cheekbones. A smile that offered a great time on the way down. Chuck Berry might sing about School Days and Johnny B. Goode, but teens knew that his songs -- from the opening guitar riff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chuck Berry: Still Reelin', Still Rockin' | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...Meru, the Land Cruiser glides through the lion-colored grasses. It is late afternoon, and lions everywhere are rising from their long day's slumber to think about hunting. The driver, a Masai named Simeon K. Londaga, sees the lion and stops and points. Poking his head like a periscope through the roof of the Cruiser, the visitor follows the line of Simeon's finger and gets lost out there in the grasses. He squints as if dialing the eyes to better focus, as if trying to build the platonic lion out of grass. Still the lion will not come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

KOMACHI, director Daniel Banks' modern rendition of a Japanese Noh drama, aspires to dramatize conflicts between East and West, reality and abstraction, nonsense and coherence, beauty and ugliness. The real battle here, though, is sleep vs. attentiveness, and alas, slumber wins...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Noh Doze | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

Three scores behind, the Crimson finally woke up from a deep slumber. On the first play from scrimmage following the Columbia field goal, White lofted a 51-yd. pass to wingback George Sorbara, who leaped between a pair of earth-bound Lion defenders to make the grab...

Author: By Bob Cunha and Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Gridders Earn Come-From-Behind Victory | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

Beneath these poster mirages provided by the makers of cigarettes and brandy the commuters slumber, read and reshuffle. Does a real-life Falling in Love ever happen? A pinochle player looks up with genuine tears in his eyes and says, "From afar." In the middle of the car a querulous drunk complains that his seat faces backward. His companion argues, "But you're facing west, and west is the city." The man with the clock says, "About this point, the lights usually go out." They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Long Island: Standing Room | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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