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...Then I woke up. My ball, like the others from Section 11, wound up not hurting anyone. No penalty was called, and we won the second game...
Monday morning I woke up late, burnt my toast, and dented my fender trying to get the car out of the garage. My windshield wipers wouldn't work, Iran declared war on the United States, and someone put corn starch in my Cremora...
...nation's top box-office draw, Actress Glenn Close enacts the ultimate female revenge fantasy. While Close's character eventually reveals herself as a murderous psycho, she has a number of exchanges with her married lover early in the film that hit home with every woman ever scorned ( "I woke up. You weren't here. I hate that"). Says one Washington woman who saw the film with two girlfriends: "Afterward, we talked about all the boyfriends we ever had wanted to murder and schemed about how we should have done...
...from a holiday in Switzerland, where he had digested a sheaf of memos explaining how he could win the Democratic nomination. But doubts about shouldering a presidential campaign on top of his Senate duties plagued him. There were moments when he thought he would make the plunge, but he woke in the middle of one night last week convinced that he should not. So Thursday morning, he activated what he called Operation Red Light -- the distribution of a no-go statement. His wife Colleen phoned his mother Elizabeth in Perry, Ga., with word of the verdict. "I'm happy with...
...appears, as was said of James Joyce, to have rejected religion while preserving its forms. He even seems to have had an antirevelation in which scales did not fall from his eyes but covered them. Twenty years ago, Chatwin, then an art expert with Sotheby's in London, woke one morning and could not see. His sight returned later that day. No organic cause for this temporary blindness could be found. An examining physician concluded that the young connoisseur had been looking too closely at pictures and prescribed distant horizons...