Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blue-suited SWAT team rushes sporadically through cell blocks, sometimes after midnight, to shake down prisoners for weapons. More than 100 assorted shivs and shanks (rodlike weapons often shaped from mop-bucket handles), as well as revolvers, have been seized. A sniper in one of the guard towers has shoot-to-kill orders. A trailer van bulging with shotguns, tear gas and riot gear waits outside the prison walls...
...ARTS, which is short for Alpha Repertory Television Service, was launched last April. Jointly owned by ABC and the Hearst Corp., ARTS was expected, like CBS-C, to carry commercials. So far, advertisers have been reluctant to commit their dollars, so the nightly 9-to-midnight programming goes free of charge to 5.1 million cable subscribers. The most highbrow of all the culture cables, ARTS has offered a complete performance of Handel's Messiah, documentaries on the lives of Tchaikovsky and Benjamin Britten, and an analysis of a painting by English Artist George Stubbs, The Grosvenor Hunt...
Dunster House Music Society--Brian Silver, sitar and surbahar; Midnight Ragas; Dunster House Library, midnight...
Toward the end of July, around midnight, about 70 men, women and children were brought in. The children and most of the women were shrieking. They were all members of a wedding party. One smartly dressed celebrant said he had no idea what had gone wrong. "We were congratulating the bride and bridegroom when they burst in and arrested everyone," he said. Some of the more sophisticated political prisoners pointed out that all newly married couples in Iran had lately been suspected of being members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), the militant anti-Khomeini guerrilla force...
...militant ring, Kamali is not an ardent feminist. (The first business she shared with her husband was called Kamali, and to break clean with the past she settled on the name OMO for her sleek, new, triple-level boutique.) She rarely travels, often works until midnight and has not taken a day off in months. "I know I'm intense," she says, "but I express humor in my clothes. I'm even trying to find a Mel Brooks to spend the rest of my life with...