Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City that consisted of 17 compositions for piano and orchestra, on five programs, within two weeks; in 1961 he gave ten Carnegie Hall concerts in one season. Conductor Edouard van Remoortel was probably not exaggerating when he said that Rubinstein was "the only pianist you could wake up at midnight and ask to play any of 38 major piano concertos." Before blindness put an end to his public career in 1976, he was playing up to 100 concerts a year...
Both parties hoped that the President would accept a Capitol Hill consensus. Congress met through the weekend to work out a compromise spending plan, but Reagan stuck by his insistence that any major jobs program would provoke a veto. Since funding for federal programs nominally expired Friday at midnight, the Government was technically shut down until Reagan and Congress could reach an agreement...
...gang of at least three thieves that hit the Bronx-based Sentry Armored Car Courier Co. went about their business with remarkable efficiency. Near midnight two of the bandits, dressed in ski masks and gloves, climbed onto the roof of the two-story Sentry building. Using metal-cutting tools, they sawed a 2-ft. hole in the roof and lowered themselves down a rope. Armed with a double-barrel shotgun, they gagged and handcuffed the only guard on duty. A crowbar was used to break the locks off the metal door to the basement "money room." There, some $30 million...
...doctors stood by. With the medical paraphernalia-intravenous tubes, a cot on wheels and a curtain for privacy-the well-lighted cubicle might have been a hospital room. But Charlie Brooks Jr., a good-looking Texan strapped to the cot, was perfectly healthy. Then, just after midnight last Tuesday, the curtain was drawn back so that 18 unsmiling visitors, three of them Brooks' guests, could watch him die from eight feet away...
...laborer, lives near a town appropriately called Hard Times. Honeybunch is a mule, with a disposition that belies her name. One evening the pair run into a freight train and wind up on the Glory Road to the Pearly Gates. Zemach's mural-like paintings create a midnight world of green pastures, good food and celestial jazz. After the requisite tantrum, even Honeybunch sees the light: the brilliance of the moon and all the stars that Jake hangs up every night for even the poorest sharecroppers-and the smallest readers-to enjoy...