Imac air powers up but no display. Apple light is on; laptop is warm on bottom. No screen and no ability to turn off.

I turned off my iMac Air last night as normal and had it hooked to the power charger because the battery indicator was low. This morning I pressed the Power button and nothing. I pressed a couple more times and I heard the start-up chime. The Apple insignia is lit; the bottom of the computer is warm. But no display and I can't seem to turn the laptop off. I've tried hitting the power button several times but nothing happens. I'm stuck. Help please. Thanks, John

So I waited a couple of hours with the Macbook Air unplugged. After two hours still noticed the Apple logo was "on" and the bottom of the laptop was warm. Pushed the power button a couple of times and the machine turned off. I pressed the power button again and heard the startup chime. I did this while holding down Option-Command-"R"-'P" (no easy task). The screen came on, very fuzzy at first but the cleared up. Wanted to know if I wanted to reinstall the OS, restore a backup or just restart. I took the simplest approach and restarted. The system rebooted fine. The display is back to where it was before. Needless to say, I immediately backed everything up to iCloud just in case this happens again.
Anyone have any suggestions or advice? Thanks, Papajohn-Philly

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