Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engaged in fistfights and lawsuits with his critics and sent his large, figurative paintings floating down the Seine on a barge. In these 28 oils, his colors are as breathtaking as ever, but the bizarre brutality has been transformed into a fierce emotionalism. White and yellow cathedrals blaze against midnight blue, flowers sputter and spout like painted fireworks, and marionettes look out with sad-eyed plaintiveness. Through March...
Rarely has a Supreme Court decision caused such swift, tumultuous reaction. Late one night last week, the gavel pounded and pounded again in the Georgia state house of representatives. Dozens of lawmakers were shouting: "Mistuh Speakuh! Mistuh Speakuh!" The clock was fast approaching midnight on Feb. 21, the hour and day of statutory adjournment of the Georgia legislature. But adjournment was out of the question. At stake was the necessity of readjusting Georgia's outrageously malapportioned U.S. congressional districts...
Georgia's Governor Carl Sanders, on the other hand, did not bother to wait, called on his legislature to act, almost within the hour-and the midnight riot ensued...
...passing phase for Monk. He was outside the mainstream, playing a lean, dissonant, unresolved jazz that most players found perilously difficult to accompany. Many musicians resented him, and he quickly lost his grip on steady jobs. Alone in his room, where he had composed his earliest music?'Round Midnight, Well, You Needn't, Ruby, My Dear?he worked or simply stared at the picture of Billie Holiday tacked to his ceiling...
...Crimson matmen traveled to Springfield yesterday, guided by the hand of a fairy godmother that had helped them to two incredibly close victories in their last two outings. Unfortunately, the clock struck midnight on the way, and when they got there, the Gymnasts decimated all eight to walk away with...