Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Français Maestro Banchet puts on a gala performance for two seatings a night, six nights a week. From noon to midnight he prowls the stainless-steel corridors of his ultramodern kitchen, setting a whirlwind pace for his 32-member staff. "Sacrebleu! Sacrebleu!" he shouts at a sous-chef when something goes wrong. One minute he is throwing whole fistfuls of truffles into a twelve-quart mixing bowl. Next he starts a pheasant paté, followed by a lobster and crayfish mousse. Tasting each creation in turn, he makes several mid-course corrections, adding a little salt here...
...York early last week bearing Britain's "final" bargaining position, which Pérez de Cuéllar passed on directly to Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Ros. Late the following evening the Argentines came to the U.N. tower with Galtieri's response to the British ultimatum. Near midnight, Sir Anthony made his now familiar trek to the 38th-floor suite, where Pérez de Cuéllar translated the Argentines' Spanish-language text for him. The text and an official U.N. translation were sent to the British mission the next day. The biggest problem at that...
...right to create and shape his own film projects, whether or not he is the nominal director. He had planned only to produce Poltergeist, but soon found himself rewriting the script (from his original story) and, word had it, taking over from Director Tobe Hooper, who had surged to midnight-movie prominence seven years earlier with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a relentless exercise in terror set, like Poltergeist, in a darkened house. He might have had a chance if he had banned Spielberg from the set. But Spielberg had chosen the cast and locations and "storyboarded" the film-devised...
Just before midnight Putnam and Lawyer Michael Crames went to the home of Judge John Flowers in Fort Worth. The judge had been in bed, but he got up, donned an L.L. Bean shirt and gray slacks and ushered the Braniff executives into his living room. Flowers signed three bankruptcy petitions in all-for Braniff International, Braniff Airways and Braniff Realty-and was paid $600 on the spot for his services. Said Braniff's boss later as he fought back tears, his voice cracking: "What we had to do was very difficult, and I'm sorry...
Prince Felix Yusupov believed he was saving Holy Russia too, when, after midnight on Dec. 17, 1916, he lured Rasputin to his palace and fed him cream cakes laced with cyanide. When the poison failed to take effect, the prince shot him. Left for dead on the floor, Rasputin opened one mad eye, then leaped up in an attempt to strangle his shocked assassin. Another conspirator had to fire more bullets. When the corpse was dragged out of the river near Petrovsky Bridge, water was found in the lungs. In the end, Rasputin may have drowned. Siberian peasants...