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...like songs. The selections of classical pieces and standards can be a little obvious (What a Wonderful World, Over the Rainbow), but the execution is hypnotic. Singer Karen Peris (who wrote the lovely original My Love Goes with You) has a transporting quaver that makes this bedtime disc positively sopor-riffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Kids' CDs for Hip Grownups | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

...street and on campus, methaqualone is known by various corruptions of its trade names: "quads" (from Quaalude, made by William H. Rorer Inc.), "French Quaalude" (from mispronunciation of Parest, the Parke, Davis & Co. brand name), and as "soap-ers" (from Sopor, made by Arnar-Stone Laboratories Inc.). It was so popular among the young people who camped out at last year's political conventions that Miami Beach's Flamingo Park was dubbed "Quaalude Alley." Its abuse is now a major problem at many colleges and high schools. It is currently favored by the addict community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Deadly Downer | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

Kopkind's final statement on audience participation leaving rock could only have been made by a man who missed Ten Years. After, Grand Funk at the Garden, Jeff Beck, or someone who's a confirmed sopor freak. He claims that there audience participation leaving rock could only have been made by a man who missed Ten Years After, Grand Funk at the Garden, Jeff Beck, or someone who's a confirmed sopor freak. He claims that there is no opportunity for interfacial action between people and their music makers." I believe that the same audiences no longer care about...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: In Defense of Alice Cooper | 12/14/1972 | See Source »

During the past 24 hours, Stalin's condition has remained grave. The cerebral hemorrhage . . . has also impaired the stem section of the brain, respiration and blood circulation . . . The patient is in a state of sopor-profound unconsciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: The Heart Stops Beating | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...hung nets [the lianas catch] falling leaves, branches, and fruits, [hold] them for years until they sag and burst like rotten bags, scattering blind reptiles, rusty salamanders, hairy spiders . . . the comejen grub gnaws at the trees like quick-spreading syphilis . . .; everywhere is the reek of fermentation, steaming shadows, the sopor of death, the enervating process of procreation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latin Prose | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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