Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took care of their own. At midnight, with beer fairly boiling on the hot sidewalks, you'd see a sarge walking a sloppy corporal back to the ship, the sarge's hand cupping the drunk's elbow to steady him but not to make too much of a spectacle of it. The sight was almost tender...
...tennis pro who discovers his mother in bed with his supposedly homosexual coach, nearly drowns in the Mississippi River and is fished out with most of his mental capacities washed away. He lives on as an automaton who is still a terror on the courts. The second reprised story, Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet, deals chiefly with Captain Bob Smith of the U.S. Army and the crisis he undergoes during the war in Viet...
...eyeline for many of these landscapes floats oneirically up in the air; he was fond of aerial perspective, the Bruegelian God's-eye view, as in his hovering vision of Arbor Day, 1932. Sometimes, with less happy results, he conflated it with Hollywood. The night view of Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931, is straight out of a Disney animation, and indeed the influence of Walt on Wood looks stronger than is usually acknowledged. In his curious Death on the Ridge Road, 1935, a painting of an impending car crash, the fatal truck coming over the brow...
...miss it if you want to observe the late-night clubhouse of a colorful potpourri of Cambridge Police on break, itinerant wanderers who stare blindly at the ceiling, and skinheads finished with an evening of singing and dancing on top of the T subway station. The centerpiece of this midnight to down circus is the one and only Cosmo who is delightful ringmaster. Go in and visit Cosmo, say hi and order the Veri-tastee frankfurter for an even buck...
Down the block, the Paperback Book smith and Wordsworth also cater to the literate night owl--both stay open almost until midnight every night except Sunday, when they close at 11 p m Skip the Booksmith, however despite a 15 percent discount on hardcover books its stock is predominantly mass market schlock Wordsworth offers a more extensive and inspired collection as well as discounts on paperback and hardcover books Harvard Bookstore another evening favorite, features high quality new release in addition to its extensive collection of used textbooks and paperbacks...