Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to patrolling on the midnight to 8 a.m. shift, Blaney serves as one of the female officers required by state law on Harvard's Sensitive Crime Unit. The unit investigates any sex-related crimes on University property...
Shortly before midnight Monday, the telex message from the Iranian bank began coming through-a test message that would have to be perfected to constitute the final instructions so funds could be moved. I had been assured by Treasury officials that this kind of message would be sent using the most modern electronic technology for speed and accuracy...
Here the Jellicle cats, a flighty, exuberant lot full of larky midnight madness, have assembled for their annual ball. Choreographer Gillian Lynne has superbly schooled her topflight troupe in clawing, stretching, rubbing and comic feline posturing, yet no single dancer convincingly turns into a cat. Lynne is a fluent choreographer, but uninventive. She relies on three main modes-jazz, ballet and acrobatics-which in reiteration become anticlimactic. When a huge boot clunks down in the middle of the chorus in the first big dance number, the touch is deliciously clever but later seems like a prophetic critique...
...describing a milieu as familiar to him as the inside of a movie studio is to most Hollywood directors: a Turkish prison. This is not the glossy torture chamber of Midnight Express-no theatrical sadomasochism here, no melodramatizing of the color scheme, no soft-focus sexual groping-but a place where ordinary men endure the restless boredom of confinement. Five of them are given a week's pass to visit their families, and find that the same restrictions face them and their women on the outside. The country is a prison, every liberating impulse is indictable, and the more...
...only thing that would succeed was a proposal that was patently fair, that did not violate Sadat's broad principles and that we could sell to the other Israelis. From daybreak Saturday, the entire American delegation bent to this task, and shortly after midnight the document was ready to be put into final form...