Word: sleepwalker
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...wanders about with a benign half-smile on her face, lacing the family's bedtime hot chocolate with a potent--and in her hands potentially lethal--soporific. The Swiss chateau is an unlikely stoner's paradise--and maybe, in Chabrol's mind, a metaphor for the way the bourgeois sleepwalk around their problems. Merci pour le Chocolat occasionally succumbs to Mika's legato rhythms, but it is more often a sly, subtle comedy about the oh-so-gentle art of murder. --By Richard Schickel
...Playing in Group B, Spain could sleepwalk its way to the next round. With quality players like Raul Gonzalez Blanco, Luis Enrique Martinez Garcia and Gaizka Mendieta, the Spaniards should cream Paraguay, as well as Slovenia, the smallest country to qualify; and South Africa is hopelessly out of its depth with striker Sean Bartlett lost despite Benni McCarthy's recent run of form. Spain as ever oozes class. The only question seems to be: Will the Spaniards choke in the quarters this year or wait until the semis...
...Martinez called it one of greatest games he could remember. And it was - at least until the following evening. Again, the Yankees would sleepwalk for eight innings as Arizona staked another unheralded hurler, Miguel Batista, to a two - run lead. Again, Brenly brought in Kim to finish the issue. And once again, the Yankees finished Kim. Catcher Jorge Posada doubled to left. Two pitches later, third baseman Scott Brosius connected with a slider that didn?t slide. He knew immediately that it was gone, raising his arms in triumph. As delirious Yankee fans danced in the stands, several Arizona players...
...happened with "Survivor 1," and it's happening in the sequel. There could hardly be any better conditions for an alliance to crack than the near-universal annoyance with Jerri, and last week the Ogakors held. The show looks set to sleepwalk through the next three weeks, because strategy so obviously dictates that the majority should hold together as long as possible before turning on each other. Immunity challenges are supposed to kink up the process, but it hasn't happened...
...pedal steel guitar is the descendant of the lap steel, which came into vogue around 1915 with the Hawaiian music craze and gradually worked its way into the American mainstream via the music of Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Alvino Rey and Santo & Johnny ("Sleepwalk"). American manufacturers like Rickenbacker and Gibson began making instruments to suit this new style of music, essentially flat slabs of wood, metal or Bakelite outfitted with a pickup and six or eight strings set about an inch above a painted-on fretboard. A guitar in name only, the steel guitar is played seated...