Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shortly after midnight, Cabot House security officer Manny Mango found the student imprisoned in a two-foot space between the two pairs of locked doors. After a brief conversation through the front door's mail slot, Mango liberated the adventurer by following his route into Moors in order to open the inside doors...
...script for Midnight Express in 1978 developed into a real dark-horse success. It got me an Oscar ((in 1979)), which stunned me. I was 32. All of a sudden I went from being nobody for ten years -- total reject -- to being wanted by everybody. I wasn't quite ready for it. I was very much an artist in my mind, and I didn't understand that the movie business is a collaboration between art and money. I wasn't a vet. The same thing that had happened to me in Viet Nam happened to me in Hollywood...
...government's response to the ad was swift. By midnight it had extended emergency press regulations to forbid publication of "any advertisement or report calculated to improve or promote the public image or esteem of an organization which is unlawful." Likewise forbidden were attempts to praise, defend, explain or justify the actions of illegal political groups. The import of the new rules was clear: any positive mention of the A.N.C. would be judged "subversive" and subject editors to a $9,000 fine, a ten-year prison term or closure of their publications...
...Rafael Hernandez Colon has said tense labor-management relations may have been a motive for the fire, but he has not blamed the Teamsters union--which had planned a strike for midnight New Year's Eve--or hotel management or non-Teamster employees...
...urging people to stay away from the Dupont Plaza on New Year's Eve. Cadiz explained that the ads referred merely to a possible curtailment in services at the hotel. He also said that after the ballroom meeting ended, he remained confident that an agreement would be reached by midnight...