Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEDNESDAY: Shortly after midnight on Christmas Day, the astronauts planned to burn Apollo's engine again, in order to boost their speed to 6,060 m.p.h., and head back toward earth. This maneuver would also occur behind the moon, so that long minutes would pass before earth stations knew whether it had been successful. The Apollo crew's itinerary called for spending the remainder of the day and all day Thursday in housekeeping chores and navigation tests while coasting back toward earth. There were also to be two more live telecasts to earth from the spacecraft...
...sleep," says a Brooklyn officer. Another reason: all regular policemen are assigned to a different one of three daily shifts each week, thereby rotating undesirable night duty. This means that a man who goes to work at 8 a.m. one week reports at 4 p.m. the next and at midnight on the third. As any doctor can testify, man does not change his sleeping habits so easily...
Just before midnight on the day following the Alves vote, a solemn-faced Justice Minister Luiz Antonio da Gama e Silva interrupted radio and television broadcasts to announce that the President had signed the Fifth Institutional Act, giving him full dictatorial powers in "defense of the necessary interests of the nation." The act, the fifth of its kind in the last four years, gave Costa e Silva the right to close Congress, rule by decree, cancel the political rights of any person, declare a state of siege, dismiss public officials, waive writs of habeas corpus, and permit the seizure...
...action scenes, too slow and repetitive during the interminable quarrels. The Panavision closeups are appealing, especially O'Toole's leonine face and downcast eyes, but there are far too many. Had the camera roamed somewhat it might've caught more of the period feeling, as in Welles' Chimes at Midnight. As it is, the few long shots are obtrusive reminders that we are outside the whole story--like a piece of scenery falling over in the middle of a play...
...media were also there in force, waiting patiently and apprehensively. Norman Mailer was there and Allen Ginsburg, Jean Genet and Terry Southern. And at about midnight the policemen were there...