Word: slumber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither are the bone-weary hackers who trudge out of Wean Hall at dawn's first light. They repair to dorm rooms and Victorian houses in quiet neighborhoods to spend the day in owl-like slumber, skipping both meals and classes. As dusk descends, they will meander back to the computer rooms, returning to the fluorescent comfort of typed instruction and programmed response, ready to hack again...
Pure for sure, but deceptively simple. Each of her plays pries the audience's eyes open with an outrageous act, then makes them crinkle with laughter and moisten, just a bit, as Henley's daffy women reveal their desires and fears with slumber-party bravado. By the end of the evening, caricatures have been fleshed into characters, jokes into down-home truths, domestic atrocities into strategies for staying alive. Not bad for a young woman who, until three years ago, was eking out her stalled career as a Los Angeles actress by sitting at her kitchen table...
...then on, Kevin Czinger, Fred Leone and the rest of Yale's defense held the Harvard offense amid the swirling winds of Soldiers Field. The Crimson defense also fought fiercely, but couldn't come up with the one big play that might have jolted the Multiflex out of its slumber...
...Christians of African descent, we pray that Blacks will awake from their leisure-intensive slumber and heed the rebuke of the prophet Amos...
...Carlos. "This is the territory of the gods." When Attila encounters the man-historically, Pope Leo I-in the flesh, he hears the same words, set to the same melody, which Verdi has also used in that scene to raise the curtain on Attila's uneasy slumber. The act ends with a majestic chorus in which the Italians sing of their coming triumph while Attila prostrates himself in fear. Although the rest of the opera is largely conventional, these two episodes make Attila well worth reviving...