Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Submitted for your approval...Eleven American Literary Tricks and Treats, sure to see you safely through from midnight to dawn. So throw open the curtains to the pitching wind, shut the door tight to any curious visitor, and tuck that cover up firmly about your neck. And no caffeine allowed, in this Halloween challenge. It'll only make your hands shake and tremble all the more...and in the end such stimulants simply won't be needed...
...MIDNIGHT. Buried Child, Sam Shepard. "There ain't nothing a man can't do," we're told in this Pulitzer Prize winning drama. Infanticide, self-mutilation, heavy-drinking, corn-husking. 190 Proof Halloween horrorpotion. And who couldn't cuddle up to a play whose most quoted line is: "You ain't never seen a bitch eat her puppies?" Hello, my name is Sam Shepard. This is my closet. And these are my skeletons...
...thought of doing all these things while serving coffee to customers and washing their dirty dishes. This night in the Tasty was my chance to a prophet for the next generation. Karl had given me an apron at midnight, he had agreed a couple of days earlier to let me work the night shift with him, and by 3 a.m. I not only thought I was a expert at my job as coffee master but that I was a genuine character as will...
While the College currently has 40 computersfor student use in the basement of the ScienceCenter, students in courses which require the useof those computers have priority over wordprocessers and word processing is allowed onlybetween midnight and noon...
...capital of the Borscht Belt, a loose confederation of some 1,000 Catskill Mountain resorts, so named in honor of the East European Jewish clientele who filled the rooms, wandered the greenery, searched for mates, did a locust number on the four Lucullan meals a day (including a midnight snack) and cheered the tummlers, a Yiddish word for exuberant entertainers. The performers themselves were a nation of immigrants: David Daniel Kaminski, Aaron Chwatt, Jacob Pincus Perelmuth, Morris Miller, Eugene Klass, Joseph Levitch, Milton Berlinger, Joseph Gottlieb. All are better known under their noms de borscht: Danny Kaye, Red Buttons...