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What all this means is that those of us who slept in on Monday will have to stand in line with our friends next Tuesday, if Harvard has a good weekend. At least we won't have to get up early, though. To prevent these all-night endurance contests my friend said it was fun, standing in the cold night for hours--before they become an unpleasant hockey ritual. Reardon has decided not to put the 1000 tickets up for sale until...
Sometimes a leader's pastimes imitate the way he governs. In his great biography of Stalin, Adam Ulam surmises that Stalin's sadism and recreation were allied. Stalin reveled in all-male, all-night banquets populated by middle-aged cronies drinking themselves witless and engaging in practical jokes. Among Stalin's favorites were placing a tomato on a chair about to be sat in and pushing friends into ponds. One can only imagine the hilarity and camaraderie at such occasions. One can also imagine the recognition on the faces of Stalin's former drinking buddies when...
...eventually, the national media began to cater to the previously ignored all-night market with shows like "NBC Overnight" and Boston's "Five All Night Live." And the leader of the late-night media circuit for the last four years has been a show that keeps millions of Americans from coast to coast glued to their radios into the wee hours of the morning--Mutual Radio's "Larry King Show." Five nights a week, King hosts a bona-fide, nation-wide call-in talk-show that runs from midnight to 5:30 a.m. And what he has written in Larry...
Elkin is America's master literary pitchman. No fiction writer sells ideas and myths with more elan and imagination. His fantasies about popular culture and allegorical burlesques have been set in places as disparate as a department-store basement (A Bad Man), an all-night radio station (The Dick Gibson Show) and heaven and hell (The Living...
...Khomeini as if he were "a rational person, "even though, Carter writes, he "was acting insanely." Carter provides a Commander in Chiefs view of the U.S. military rescue effort that ended with the abandonment of flaming aircraft and eight American bodies in an Iranian desert. He vividly describes the all-night negotiating vigil of his last hours as President and tells how he felt as he listened to his successor deliver his Inaugural Address just moments before the hostages were finally flying out of Iran...