Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approximately 300 late night moviegoers were turned away from the Brattle Theatre this weekend because the Cambridge Board of Licenses last week rejected the theater's application to permit midnight showings...
...restaurant and lounge to pass the evening. There was a city-wide curfew in effect because of the strikes, and that provided the perfect excuse to sit and get smashed, which they did. Janey seemed a little sullen; it had not been a good day for hero worshippers. By midnight, the girls were back in their rooms, and it was about 12:30 when a drunken security guard at one of the electric power stations across town went berserk, throwing switches at random and putting all of Memphis into darkness on the eye of the first anniversary of Elvis...
...should check out the Fogg. And the other half of the class gets to join the fun on Sunday. The time might better spent writing an ecstatic or semi-suicidal letter to your girl/boy friend, as the case may be, and sending postcards to doting relatives. 8:30 p.m.-midnight. This is it. Memorial Hall will rock (?) tonight with the freshman Mixer, one of the most crowded, sweaty, noisy, horny and thoroughly revolting rites of passage you will ever have to endure. Of course, you don't have to go. The place is filled to the gills with people looking...
...street lights should suddenly go out at 12:33 a.m. on Wednesday, the anniversary day, or that air-conditioning units straining against the muggy night air should go silent. Richard David Hyder, 29, a private security guard paid to protect an electricity substation, has come to work at midnight after taking a few drinks. For reasons of his own he has flipped a bank of switches. For three hours, until power is restored, there is scattered looting of liquor stores, as sheriffs deputies, National Guardsmen and nonstriking city police supervisors try to keep order. At a darkened local hospital...
...explosion-so forceful that inhabitants of the Lebanese capital mistook it for an earthquake-erupted shortly after midnight in an ammunition dump in the building's basement. Both the P.L.F. and Fatah kept offices in the building, but innocent people were sleeping in apartments upstairs. Rescue crews found the remains of two Lebanese families and of two young girls who had come to spend the fasting month of Ramadan with their grandmother...