Word: slumbers
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...marquise's honor and perhaps her life. The savior takes the distraught marquise to safety and receives her father's effusive thanks. Sound familiar? Ah, but there's a twist. The smitten young officer takes the marquise's honor himself, while she is in the depths of opium-induced slumber. For the next two hours or so, Rohmer and Kleist provide us with an object lesson in the ways in which rigid social and religious mores can blind people to the obvious. The comedy of manners is beautifully filmed, and Rohmer's skillful, low-key direction prevents the story from...
First, the sleep clinicians probe deeply into a patient's sleep habits−for example, by questioning his bed partner. They also video-tape his slumber behavior in special sleeping rooms, where patients spend the night hooked up to a polygraph, a lie-detector-like machine that monitors sleep-related physiological functions (breathing, muscle twitching, rapid eye movement...
...fully conscious the whole time. Re-evaluating his opening statistic after learning this, Joe realized "I was never really sure whether I was sleeping or not." Anyhow, the uncertainty was reason enough to drive him into University Health Services for sleeping pills, which brought on the long-awaited blissful slumber...
After a 22 hour day, Nancy said she is generally ready to begin unfolding the sheets for the slumber that she hopes will go 12 to 14 hours. She hates going to bed, but when her fatigue manages to get the best of her, she gives it her all, just as she obviously does with her daytimes...
Despite its flaws, Literary Women still serves as an immensely readable introduction to some 60 women writers, including many whose reputations have been entombed in the footnotes of professional journals. For these literary shut-ins, a slumber party is better than no outing...