Word: slumbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is, after all, something cool about the color pink (or at least I think so). Cosmo, Vogue and Elle, while of dubious literary value and filled with appalling advertisements, provide hours of amusement ("Is he right for you? The fast, fun guide to men.") I now feel slumber parties just rock, especially when they involve gossip, hair-braiding and listening to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack...
...nation's space program to be a waste of time and money. The notion of launching tomato seeds into space is morally repugnant when there are those who die of starvation on a daily basis. Housing men and women in space stations seems futile when homeless people slumber just outside my door. Perhaps it is merely an end of innocence, but the intergalactic dreams of my youth have become the cosmic fears and realities of my adulthood. Theologians distinguish between "other-worldly" and "this-worldly" philosophies and it is not with remorse that I cleave to the latter. Call...
...frolicking about the house they had lived in since the murder of their mother on June 12, 1994. Sydney, 11, playing with a cousin, was aware of the drama about to unfold: she had told a friend that, yes, she planned to spend the weekend with her at a slumber party but all that might be canceled if she went back to live with her father. Meanwhile, Sydney's brother Justin, 8, and another cousin were playing together--until television camera crews began their vigil outside. Relatives whisked the kids away in a van. By 3:30 p.m., Denise...
...Crimson finally woke up from its early season slumber and found what it had been missing through its first three games this season--emotion...
Also worthy of esteem was the Autumn Adagio Molto, with the rich initial phrasing of the baroque guitar played with bravura by Olav Chris Henriksen. With Gibbon's rhythmic, plucking continuo, the music lulled guests into imaginary dulcet slumber. During the Allegro, the orchestra, which had been struggling a bit at first with dynamics and synchronicity, finally gelled and the harpsichord rocked along, tying the ends together splendidly...