Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nameless doors at 3 Church Street, opposite Shakti Shoes in the Square, open at 7:30 every Friday and Saturday night. Music begins at 8 and lasts through seven-count-'em-seven sets until midnight or 1 am, no admission or cover charge. Musicians, mostly locals chosen by audition, are unpaid. Folk and blues styles predominate, but jazz and classical sometimes appear. Coffee, cider and soft drinks free! No booze...
...arguing the case for the five workers, Richard Coleman, an attorney for Local 26, cited a Massachusetts statute that makes it legitimate for "female employees" to opt for unemployment benefits rather than take a job that involves working between midnight and 6 a.m., Kuntz said...
However, that placed second to Esserman's bizarre poetic license, giving the Grass Roots' "eye" single as "Midnight Confessions," and the B.J. Thomas "eye" smash as "R-eyendrops Keep Fallin' On My Head...
...distractions that one finds in trying to do a job that is too large at best and much too large when up to four hours a day are spent running for the fire extinguisher, using it and refilling it. Some Sundays I almost catch up to the job by midnight, and some Sundays I catch up to where I should have been the week before...
...confab was interrupted by an incessant stream of phone calls from down-at-the heels disco acts. "Hello, Mr. Murdoch, this is Gladys Knight." The voice was unmistakable. She was muttering something about her new solo effort--"Midnight Train to Canberra," I think she said--and how the Pips were a thing of the past. Rupe told her to forget music for the moment: "Honey, I've got bigger things planned for you...Ever hear of New West...