When I think of London, where I lived for nearly two decades, I think of chattery dinner parties at Amelia's table, and long sleepy Sunday lunches, and the way Amelia looks as she stirs her risotto at the stove, her recipe book behind her.
With more revelations from the Charbonneau Commission sure to come, and a young population steadily taking to the streets (raised tuition or not) after a long sleepy winter, the road ahead seems anything but smooth.
The acquisition is likely to accelerate mergers in the long-sleepy food business.
A. There is a definite buzz at the long-sleepy Battery Maritime Building, just east of Battery Park and departure point for the now-infrequent ferries to Governors Island.
Now long-sleepy Harlequin is fighting back.
Culkin, the slyly resourceful star of the "Home Alone" series, has turned into a pale, slender young man with a long face, sleepy eyes, and protuberant lips.
When the housing boom hit the South, Nashville, long a sleepy capital city with a Bible Belt sensibility, did not reap the financial gains seen in cities like Atlanta, whose metropolitan region is more than three times its size.
"And if church members fell asleep during the sermon, someone would tickle them with a feather at the end of a long pole!" Sleepy congregants were less of a problem at Beneficent Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island.
Those numbers made VH-1, long the sleepier older sibling of MTV, into a star among Viacom's television properties.
When hard decisions are required, sociologists and political scientists have long argued, a sleepy public gathers valuable tidbits from the media and comes up to speed.
However, the transformation has also disrupted many of the world's historical archives, long known as sleepy places distinguished by vast and often musty collections of documents that only rarely saw the light of day.
