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Word: midnight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...respectable college term paper rolls of the Smith Corona before midnight. Thus, the all-night dive. Store 24 (1438 Mass Ave.) provides everything from soup to nuts for the odd hours gourmand. Fig Newtons are just as delicious as you remember, and Mom's not around to stop you from eating the whole box. Brigham's has sour coffee and bad ice cream. Both used to stay open 24 hours a day. Now they close before 3 a.m. No class...

Author: By Paul M. Barre, | Title: Off-Campus Fun | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...Paradise, on Common wealth Ave off the Green Line, is the top club in town, just short of the Orpheun and the Boston garden Covers are often steep, and shows tend to end rather promptly at midnight. Drinks, needless to say, are even more expensive then elsewhere. Since you can often see the same band at Swift's a day or two before or after the Paradise date, it pays to stay home in Cambridge...

Author: By Paul M. Barre, | Title: Off-Campus Fun | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...first-run movies, cult flicks, and Borgart orgies. The Harvard Square Theatre shows a lot of movies that probably didn't deserve to exist the first time around, but you will also find a steady stream of classies and up to 20 different shows every week. The midnight screenings often feature soft porn along the lines of Emmanuclle and the New York Frotic Film Festival. Yes, there are little old men in rain coats there...

Author: By Paul M. Barre, | Title: Off-Campus Fun | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...affiliates started buying CNN2, the networks were galvanized into action. CBS, which had been considering an overnight news offering for years, decided to hurtle ahead: in October it will launch weeknight news shows from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. E.T. Also in October, ABC will follow Nightline with a midnight-to-1-a.m. show featuring Interviewer Phil Donahue. NBC last month premiered a featurish hour of news from 1:30 to 2:30 a.m. four nights a week, and from 2 to 3 a.m. on Friday, and a morning program preceding Today, from 6:30 to 7 a.m., and using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaking Up the Networks | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...circus' performance director, had seen them fail so many times that he too was stunned when they finally succeeded. He ran to the phone and called the show's producers, Irvin and Kenneth Feld, in Washington. "They asked me why the hell I was calling after midnight," he told TIME's Paul Krueger. "And all I could say was, 'They caught the quad! They caught the quad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: They Caught the Quad! | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

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