Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouragement to the Cambridge Planning Board and the thousands of other citizens interested in preserving what little space remains for quiet contemplation within metropolitan areas. Like so many other things, urban recreational space has been needlessly swept away in the wake of blind expediency...
...answer to requests, Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk would mutter, "All reet," greatly confusing Chaliapin. When he finally caught on, Chaliapin replied in Russian-accented retaliation: "All root." During four sittings Thelonious had a disconcerting habit of dropping off to sleep. Chaliapin would yell at him, "Monk, Monk, wake up!", then prod him out of his armchair and walk him around the studio. Says he: "Monk's very strange-in the best sense of the word." As for Thelonious, it took him about a week to learn to pronounce the painter's name. Having mastered it, he improvised...
Throughout, Gregory kept echoing a single refrain directed both at Negroes and whites: "Better wake up and see what's happening...
...standing on one leg, with beak tucked under wing. Most people sleep on their sides, spending more time on one than the other, and tend to bend the hips and draw up the knees a little, the better to relax. Sleeping supine is likely to cause snoring, which may wake the sleeper himself, besides disturbing others...
...Ornella Vanoni), that married lady's husband breaks one of Rugantino's fingers as a hint to keep hands off. Apart from palming off his mistress on an aging lecher (Aldo Fabrizi), most of Rugantino's pranks backfire. He tosses a dead cat into an aristocratic wake, and is forced to eat the cooked carcass in an epicurean setting. His Chaplinesque resilience does not fail him. "Could I have a side order of mice?" he asks. An unexpectedly macabre finale silences both hero and show...