Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tuesday Midnight: The Pressure Grows
...Ford to run. He was astonished at Reagan's enthusiasm for what was becoming known as the "Ford option," in contrast to the "standard option" (the much publicized short list of contenders, headed by Bush). Brock decided then that he too would plead with Ford. Around midnight, Brock called Convention Chairman John Rhodes on the podium and invited him to a breakfast next morning in Brock's 70th-floor Plaza suite to discuss the "dream ticket...
...valets who will return a pressed suit in 30 minutes and arrangements with local tradesmen to provide books and other items at any hour. The Pontchartrain will shop for a guest who has forgotten to pack the essential black tie. The Westgate can provide a stenographer for dictation at midnight. The Carlyle will soon offer worldwide direct-dial phones for international hommes des affaires...
...road to fame is riven with unpredictability and adversity. Most viewers, however, realize that; and this choppy, self-indulgent work fails even as an adolescent Chorus Line. While Parker has a good eye for projecting spontaneity--several scenes evoke the chilling chase through the streets of Istanbul in his Midnight Express--he has a cloying tendency to content himself with flirt and skirt, inadvertently erasing any semblance of passion that leaks through the surface...
King can either sign or veto the measure. If he does neither the statute will become law without his signature if the legislature is still in session Saturday night at midnight, when the time limit on the bill expires. But if the legislature "proroges" or adjourns before Saturday night, King could pocket veto the bill by not acting...