Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of the Monkey Business photographs and rumors of Hart's other liaisons, the denial seemed stunning. Was Lee Hart so driven to be First Lady? Whatever the motive, she has stuck to that loyal line ever since, and if she has any doubts, she does not let on, even to some of her close friends...
...Halloween night in 1938, cadging free meals and hoping to make his peace with the phantoms who beckon to him from every trolley seat, backyard and yawning grave. So many lives behind him, and so many deaths. A man just wants to rock himself to sleep and not wake...
...leaps are not what The Nutcracker is about, and the little girl behind me knew that, as did every other child in the audience. During the last scene, the children in the audience start to drop off to sleep so that when the show is over and they wake up, the performance seems like little more than a dream. That is what The Nutcracker is all about...
...portion of that wisdom in Shaker Lane (Viking; $14.95). Into the old Shaker country of abandoned farms come the first of the home builders. A sleepy village is born. In time it gives way to county developers. Where once there were bulls there are now bulldozers, and in their wake come tract housing, aboveground swimming pools and backyard basketball courts. One holdout remains, surviving on his houseboat, a poignant reminder of the rural past. The Provensens' flat, colorful paintings are nostalgic for the old times without putting down the present. They imply that however the land alters, one basic need...
...tried sleeping accross the doorway to the bathroom so that anyone who entered would wake me up. One night I was awakened by my roommate. "AH HA!" I screamed, my tongue and limbs failing in all directions...