Word: sleeper
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...more." But it got a softer, more complex meaning both from the melody, which has the poignancy of a lullaby to an absent child, and from Niles' rendition, his voice soaring on the first "bother me no more" so that he sounds like an unquiet spirit, or maybe a sleeper shooing a ghost out of his nightmares...
Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep, was the sleeper hit of 2005. It tells the bittersweet, perfectly observed story about Lee, a quiet Midwestern girl who tries, with decidedly mixed results, to fit in at a breathtakingly preppy Eastern private school. To the surprise of many, not least its publisher and its author, Prep spent nine weeks on the New York Times best-seller list...
Although the thought of Iran’s acquiring nuclear weapons is undoubtedly terrifying, another more imminent potential catastrophe deserves our attention. Before moving to Boston, I lived in southern Vermont, approximately five miles from the sleeper cell that is Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant...
...episodes, in which characters make it crosstown in L.A. traffic in five minutes). Season 4 was even more of an implausible thrill ride than usual. But it was the series' best season for raw acting performances, especially Shohreh Aghdashloo's as the hard-bitten-but-sympathetic matriarch of a sleeper-cell family. As agent Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland is a grimly expressive study as he realizes that doing his ugly duty may cost him his public face and the woman he loves--and yet does it anyway...
...According to Gilmore, other American film festivals cannot match the marketing draw of Sundance. Major studios flock to the tiny Utah town to survey the latest independent flicks, and if they’re lucky, nab the next sleeper hit for national distribution...