Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Juliet Prowse, and they were already in bed. So I said to Joe and the other guy, 'I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but there's a broad who's going to jump off my balcony if she doesn't meet Sinatra.' They didn't want to wake him up, but in the meantime he heard me." The upshot was that Sinatra--Sinatra!--got out of bed, went over to Bishop's suite with an autographed picture and some flowers, and invited the girl and her parents to be his guests at the next night's show...
Zhang sounds the ferry's horn at an oncoming barge. He is in favor of the controversial Three Gorges Dam, which, he says, will deepen the water and allow big ships to sail all the way upstream to Chongqing, bringing economic development in their wake. "We are only half developed compared with the Mississippi, where you have dams that make the water flatter and easier for shipping," he says. Like most Chinese today, he is fascinated by the wealth of the U.S. and by its political system. "Mao started the Cultural Revolution on his own. Even if you want...
Recently Morales called into his office a beautiful little six-year-old girl who had been missing a lot of school. "I asked her if she needed an alarm clock to help her wake up on time," he recalls, "and all of a sudden she breaks down crying." It seems that under the nose of her allegedly crank-addicted mother, the girl had been raped repeatedly by a teenage relative, a sadistic sort given to dousing his hands in fingernail-polish remover, setting them aflame and then blowing out the fire before he was burned. He warned the girl that...
...only author who tried to surpass the encyclopedic scope of Ulysses was Joyce himself. He spent 17 years working on Finnegans Wake, a book intended to portray Dublin's sleeping life as thoroughly as Ulysses had explored the wide-awake city. This task, Joyce decided, required the invention of a new language that would mime the experience of dreaming. As excerpts from the new work, crammed with multilingual puns and Jabberwocky-like sentences, began appearing in print, even Joyce's champions expressed doubts. To Pound's complaint about obscurity, Joyce replied, "The action of my new work takes place...
Today, only dedicated Joyceans regularly attend the Wake. A century from now, his readers may catch up with...