Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Within three weeks of its publication, the apocalyptic action thriller was No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list--a list that generally doesn't even count sales by the nation's Christian bookstores. So wildly anticipated was Assassins among LaHaye and Jenkins' faithful fans that at midnight on the morning of its release, a line of nearly 1,000 buyers formed outside the Jesus Chapel Discount Bookstore in Scottsdale, Ariz. And at a speed even Satan's horsemen might envy, Assassins' publisher, Tyndale House, has decided to add 650,000 copies to its million-strong first printing...
...knows what his neighbors suffered, or how exactly they survived. To survive today, school-age girls still sell themselves for $2 a visit--ignoring what may be the fastest-rising AIDS-infection rate in the world--and children scramble in the dust for foreigners' coins long after midnight. Their faces, you can't help noticing, are the same as the ones in the torture center...
...reactions are sacred or scared. Justin Renfroe, 27, an Atlanta exterminator, shrugs and says, "I guess I didn't get it." He will advise friends to "wait for the video." After a midnight show at the Angelika, the indie showplace in lower Manhattan where Blair Witch had its theatrical premiere on July 14, a vocal minority is shouting, like a high school football cheer, a chorus of "Bulllllsh__!" But a few persist in believing, even after the final cast and credit roll, that this clever fiction is for real--a documentary that ends in death. "You mean...
...Thursday the Senator stayed up past midnight working on his eulogy and, after flying from Hyannis Port to New York, polished it at his sister Pat Lawford's apartment. Plans were so last-minute that when staff members turned in for the night, it was still unclear whether Caroline would speak; the program was not printed until 1 a.m. It was her decision to ask Ted to deliver the eulogy. But even if she didn't eulogize John, it was she and her children who became the emotional center of the service. She reminded the mourners about the love...
Like the Aurora Borealis streaking the midnight sky, a glowing apparition lights up the stage. It's radiant, wispy and ethereal. But you're so focused on the intricate moves of the dancers onstage that you almost miss the ghostlike figure before it vanishes a few seconds later. Was it just a dream...