Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kuechenmeister finds the ordeal not only bearable but downright pleasant. "It's a relief to be retired," he admits in almost surprised tones. "I'm satisfied. I'm happier not working than I was working. The tensions are gone. If I want to stay up to midnight to watch a football game, I don't have to worry about getting up the next morning...
...many qualities. He should be spherical (to keep the center of gravity low when he mixes his martinis), have good hands (for hustling his customers at pool) and good feet (for dancing on the tables), not to mention the mind of a philosopher (for dealing with drunks at midnight, and their wives at 3 a.m.) and the soul of a poet (for writing dirty limericks). The Irish obviously have a tremendous cultural advantage in all of these field; William Butler Yeats, sources say, would have made a phenomenal barkeep if he'd been about 25 pounds heavier...
Halloween Movie Marathon, Friday and Saturday, midnight til dawn, at Off the Wall...
Minutes tick away and the deadline nears. At midnight, Oct. 2, a key section of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty expires. After that the U.S. and the Soviet Union will no longer be bound by the ceilings on offensive, strategic weapons to which they agreed five years ago. Despite Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's meetings in Washington last week with President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, there is virtually no chance that a new arms accord can be reached before the deadline...
There is nothing necessarily wrong with this realism-at-all-costs approach, as Midnight Cowboy amply demonstrated some years ago. But when the director withholds compassion as he ladles on the seaminess, serious reservations about the creative process, as well as its final product, become justified...