Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to save energy, the Buildings and Grounds Department (B & G) is again enforcing its policy of not heating water for dormitories between midnight...
...Democrats, despite their many victories, were not pleased with the results. On election night, Jimmy Carter's White House aides cheerfully closeted themselves in Press Secretary Jody Powell's cluttered office to watch the returns. By midnight, their mood had changed. When Democratic National Committee Chairman
Shortly before midnight on Sunday, Nov. 5, FBI agents knocked on the door of Wolfson's apartment. After a brief argument with the photographer, they entered and began to search. Suddenly, Rifkin stepped out of a closet, hands raised, and gave up. He turned over to the agents a suitcase, filled with $12,000 in cash and about 40 packets of diamonds. As agents led Rifkin from the apartment, Wolfson snapped a few pictures of his friend that he sold to news organizations the next...
...long ago that Turkey had to bear the brunt of American pressure because of its poppy cultivation. Turkey then was an easy scapegoat for the concerned parents of American drug addicts and the U.S. administration. It is certainly ironic that "Midnight Express" puts the country once again in the culprit's seat: this time not because it is lax in its regulation of opium cultivation, but because it is harsh with misguided foreigners who try to smuggle hashish out of the country. If Billy Hayes got a "raw deal" from the Turkish government, this was due not to any wickedness...
...prosecutor, and, for lack of subtitles, Mr. Contreras may be excused for not quite grasping the motives of the Turkish government in sentencing Billy Hayes to life imprisonment. Nonetheless, I find it inadmissible to acclaim a movie which is so outrageously biased in its depiction of a whole nation. "Midnight Express" is offensive only not only to Turks, but to all self-respecting human beings. Dani Rodrik...