Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year passes in a succession of lonely midnight shifts. Wilkinson checks to see that houses are secure and gets called to a few domestic squabbles. He witnesses an autopsy and spends months trying to shake the memory of what he has seen. Most of all, he listens to the eight other men on the force and comes to respect them. They have drifted into thankless jobs. One tells him: "Right now I work on the police force, my wife stamps cans in the supermarket, and she makes more money than I do." Says another...
...evening, the manager of a West Beirut supermarket drove painstakingly along side streets through the no-man's land separating East and West Beirut. In East Beirut, where a sort of normality prevailed under Israeli occupation, he picked up a truckload of bottled water and returned with it after midnight to West Beirut. The next day he sold it at regular prices. As rumors of food shortages spread, people lined up for emergency supplies. Said the proprietor of one grocery store: "People are frightened. They are afraid that in case of a battle, they will not be able to leave...
...This Morning, 6 a.m. to 7 a.m.; and NBC's Early Today, a 6:30 a.m. curtain raiser to the 30-year-old Today show, which airs at 7 a.m. To come in October are an ABC hour of news and talk from midnight to 1 a.m., featuring Interviewer Phil Donahue, and a CBS marathon from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. that will lead into the network's Morning News from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. CBS was first to announce its move, but it will be the last into the fray. Claims a CBS executive: "We want...
...more than can Wagner's four-day Ring cycle. The tale takes four plays to tell, but each one is self-sufficient and intelligible by itself Attempts to conflate two or more plays have been only partly successful-as Orson Welles discovered in his 1965 film version, Chimes at Midnight...
...festival did not flourish at the box office, it was not the artistic flop that some local critics claimed it was either. Robert Ward's opera Minutes Till Midnight, which took as its theme the moral dilemma of an atomic physicist, is less than exciting, but it has a serviceable tonal score and a singable libretto. Albee's The Man Who Had Three Arms, though wordy, is an intriguing, often hilarious parable about the hazards of fame in the TV age, with excellent performances by Robert Drivas, Patricia Kilgarriff and Wyman Pendleton. Williams' A House Not Meant...