Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good, but the Bohemia nevertheless plastered its walls with record jackets and went jazz. A favorite hangout of off-duty jazzmen, it also attracts the earnest and informed young jazz buffs in heavy spectacles and flamboyant shirts who sit for hours nursing drinks and intently following the music. After midnight, when the air is blue with smoke and the beer drinkers at the bar are vibrating with the music. visiting jazzmen are apt to move to the front of the room, pick up borrowed instruments and join...
...from the third-floor balcony, chickens cluck on the lawn, the goat is kept on the second floor. Significantly the one clear space in the house is around his easel, lit by a powerful electric lamp with triple reflectors, where he paints every day from 4 p.m. until after midnight with an old boxboard for a palette, sometimes knocking off two or three versions of a subject in a single session. Explains Picasso : "I am a Spaniard. Just as a torero takes his bull through all sorts of passes, I like to take my pictures through all kinds of variations...
After four hours of heated talk, they made up their minds: Rojas had to go. Army Commander in Chief Rafael Navas Pardo was chosen to break the news to the President. Shortly after midnight he was shown into the study at the presidential palace. "My general," he said, "you must leave the country. Things cannot go on like this." At first Rojas refused to believe it. But three hours later, after conversations with other army commanders and Cardinal Luque's personal representative, he yielded. Rojas asked only that his War Minister and old friend, Major General Gabriel Paris...
Costello's troubles can be traced through childhood, prohibition, most major rackets, and police records. But his recent trouble began a few minutes before midnight on May 3. It was then that the doorman at 115 Central Park West greeted him and was almost immediately shoved aside by what the New York police termed a "torpedo...
...Dead or Tied Up." At midnight of the first day of his imprisonment, Valencia felt a need to consult with the church, which had already given him open support (TIME. May 6). He decided to visit Cali's Auxiliary Bishop Miguel Angel Medina. Friends tried to stop him, but fiery Valencia, his toothbrush mustache bristling, shouted "I am the boss," and stalked out. Marching up to the lieutenant in command, he demanded to be taken to the bishop's palace. The bold move worked; in the course of an hour-long conversation. Monsignor Medina offered asylum...