Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eagerness as any tyro at his own first play. Most of them were dabbing their eyes, and for those who were not the impact of the picture was too powerful to talk about. Said Selznick of Gone With the Wind: "At noon I think it's divine, at midnight I think it's lousy. Sometimes I think it's the greatest picture ever made. But if it's only a great picture, I'll still be satisfied...
...important telephone call. Amin answers and listens glumly. Haddad is at the other end of the room on an extension. He too is expressionless. The shells are still exploding outside as the President finally excuses himself, moving to the door with an almost boyish gait. It is midnight, but there is still work...
...million inhabitants of Perth, Australia II's home port, probably had less sleep than any other people in the world. On race days, radio coverage began around midnight and did not end until 6 a.m. "I've managed three hours sleep every night this week, and my colleagues say I'm doing well," said Perth Lord Mayor Michael Michael. In Britain, where the press had lost interest in the series after its own entry was beaten by Australia II, the series was again a Page One story. In France, savoring the spectacle of Americans having to take...
...Michael S. Dukakis kicked off the station switch, personally inspecting the new sites on Wednesday, August 31. At 10 p.m. the next evening, the Harvard/Holyoke tracks carried their last car, and the construction crew worked feverishly over the Labor Day weekend, drilling and hammering past midnight, and pulling in double and triple overtime pay. (Authority officials picked the weekend to make the transition, when commuter use would be relatively light. In the interim, the MBTA provided free bus rides to and from Kendall Square...
...officers, all of them white, were accused of abetting saboteurs from neighboring South Africa who destroyed or damaged about 25% of Zimbabwe's combat aircraft with phosphorus grenades in a midnight raid a year ago on Thornhill air force base in the Zimbabwe midlands. They were brought to court in May and faced maximum penalties of death or life imprisonment...