Word: midnightã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Investigators believe Wiley disappeared sometime between midnight??when he left the meeting’s banquet—and 4 a.m., when they discovered his abandoned rental car on a bridge over the Mississippi River...
...July 8, 2000 were strange ones for me. I got a tattoo and a new pair of glasses, and after working a full eight-and-a-half-hour shift during the day, I voluntarily went back to work at 11:30 p.m. and stayed until well after midnight??all this to promote a book in a series that I had avoided since its inception...
King said he would support no such “midnight?? deals if elected to the City Council, and incumbent Michael A. Sullivan similarly said that he did not want the council making secret decisions about city planning...
...ever since his first, unremarked novel Grimus, he has exercised his talent judiciously and to devastating effect. Although he has been writing for 20 years, this is only his eighth novel, and he has received many of the highest literary honors in the world. His first world-class novel, Midnight??s Children, won the “Booker of Bookers” prize and established his teeming, magical and mythological style, which somehow never lost its sense of intimacy, nor its intense invocation of place. Seldom has a city been so strongly, affectionately and vividly portrayed...
...political turbulence in the Congo Republic, Matapari’s childhood is one where government upheavals are played out on television, where Coca-Cola infiltrates local grocery markets and where Dragonball Z and Terminator movies have as much clout as provincial folklore. As in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight??s Children and, more locally, the Nigerian novel Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Matapari’s childhood, from his “miraculous” birth in 1980 through the beginnings of Congo’s 1997 civil war, mirrors the nation’s own coming...