Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pitched for his high school team. But college--well, he couldn't understand what was happening in college so he dropped out, having decided to make some money in construction instead. No money in Kant or Hegel, he reasoned. There were plenty of philosophy students mopping floors until midnight for minimum wage, and Bobby had grander aspirations: he wanted a fast, sleazy car, a pool, a color TV, an air conditioner, a wife who looked like Cheryl Tiegs, and plenty of beer...
Harvard Square Theater - Friday - Love and Death, 1, 5:25, 9:55, Everything you always wanted to know about sex, 2:30, 6:55; Bananas, 4, 8:30. Saturday - Sunday - The Turning Point, 4:15, 8:10; Lumiere, 2:30, 6:20, 10:10. Midnight shows, Friday and Saturday, Let It Be/Yellow Submarine...
...Wall - 861 Main St. - Cartoons of Max Fleischer, 4, 6, 8, 10, also Friday-Saturday at midnight and Saturday-Sunday...
Exeter Theater - Exet er St. - Cat and Mouse, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Friday and Saturday midnight show - The Rocky Horror Picture Show...
...trying to suppress the midnight carousers by saying, "Are you mad? Or what are you?," he can make the word what sound perfectly awful-similarly, in a later scene, when he brands them "shallow things." In the Letter Scene, Malvolio reads the sentence, "If this fall into thy hand, revolve." I must confess that I always enjoy seeing the actor foolishly turn around (as Rabb does), although in Shakespeare's day the word revolve meant simply consider, and had not yet taken on the modern meaning of rotate...