Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faithfull's voice is eerie, raggedy, shattered. She sounds like Lotte Lenya serenading from a sidecar, but she is completely lacking in either melodrama or self-pity. Songs like Penthouse Serenade and Boulevard of Broken Dreams ("And gigolo and gigolette/ Wake up to find their eyes are wet/ With tears that tell of broken dreams") are the sort of fey selections reliably included on subscription-only albums by chanteuses who play hotel lounges in off- season. Faithfull, however, endows them with real gutter sophistication -- the Boulevard of Broken Dreams never sounded like a mean street before -- and that...
...answer questions. "Julie, are you hungry?" he asked. "Can we talk about your friends?" it replied. The audience was not impressed. Mattel's Baby Heather comes with an internal clock that tells it when to be "hungry" or "sleepy," but if the clock is not set correctly, Heather may wake up its owner at 4 a.m. wanting...
...Chairman of the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees announced this week that pay raises for two top university administrators would be cut down in the wake of criticism by Chairman of the Board of Regents of Higher Learning, L. Edward Lashman...
...shaking an uncountable number of hands. One recent night in New York City, his wife Hattie arrived and crept / into bed while he was asleep. He awoke before dawn to catch a plane to Pittsburgh. All they shared was a tap on the shoulder."Some mornings," Babbitt concedes, "you wake up and say, 'I can't take another day of this...
...summiteers hoped to reach agreement this week, and waiting any longer could push the financial markets into a deep funk. But for the moment investors took consolation in the temporary halt of the dollar's worrisome slide. In a calculated strategy orchestrated by Treasury Secretary James Baker in the wake of Black Monday, the Government has been allowing the dollar to decline. Baker believed not only that a lower dollar would help ease the trade deficit by making American goods more competitive but also that propping up the currency would force the U.S. to keep interest rates too high just...