Word: slumbers
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...Happy Days are always trying to score with cheerleader types; the appealingly libidinous roommates of Three's Company spend so much time trying to turn their platonic ménage à trois into an orgy that the show has the dizzy ambience of a junior high coed slumber party. Adults do not have nearly as much fun. On Soap and Three's Company, impotent middle-aged characters are the butts of a major share of the jokes. The only sexual state funnier than menopause is homosexuality: "fruit" jokes fly fast on Soap, where there is a transsexual character...
...alarm clock never had a chance. Long before it could fulfill its routine function Tuesday morning, shrill telephone rings disturbed the peaceful slumber of John H. Van Vleck...
...perhaps the most remarkable filibuster in Senate history, first-term Democrats James Abourezk of South Dakota and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio turned the chamber into a marathon slumber party that kept the Senators up until dawn the first day, late the following night, and threatened to continue this week. Their stated objective: to block any move to lift the federal ceiling on the price of natural gas sold interstate. The ordeal was fresh evidence that an independent and unpredictable Senate is defying its own leadership and the White House. The week also marked the emergence of Byrd...
...champions and the runners-up moved to a fried-chicken victory dinner. But for the Rams, the real celebration came later that night. The champions of Iowa girls' basketball, holders of the state's most prestigious athletic prize, retired to a school gym across town for a slumber party...
Thayer Hall residents who complained last month that the Memorial Church bells signaling the 8:45 a.m. prayer service interrupted their slumber will no doubt be pleased by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes's announcement this week that the bells will only ring two minutes in the future, a 60 per cent reduction of the traditional five-minute peal. Ask not, of course, for whom the bells toll...