Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They went skinny-dipping in the old Blue Hole on Bogalusa Creek--with a little peer pressure you can do that at Christmas in Louisiana. They mounted bottle rocket wars in shopping center parking lots after midnight. Old times. Then the new year was on them and they left. New safety nets kept sliding underneath them: friends typed their theses, roommates fronted them money, parents kept in touch, old comrades offered them jobs. New ties that bind, in place of a home. When you're young, you're always making it, there's always time...
They went skinny-dipping in the old Blue Hole on Bogalusa Creek--with a little peer pressure you can do that at Christmas in Louisiana. They mounted bottle rocket wars in shopping center parking lots after midnight. Old times. Then the new year was on them and they left. New safety nets kept sliding underneath them: friends typed their theses, roommates fronted them money, parents kept in touch, old comrades offered them jobs. New ties that bind, in place of a home. When you're young, you're always making it, there's always time...
...midnight passed and the countdown approached zero, tension increased inside the lead-enclosed control room three miles from Ground Zero, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), where project scientists put aside their munchies and listened intently--by an audio hook...
...recover the chip. The Texas company has managed to put a fairly large vocabulary onto a computer chip at low cost. With that, synthetic speech becomes possible in many consumer products. Washing machines could gurgle when the suds get too high, and the refrigerator could snarl at the midnight raider. But what, the best brains in Detroit are wondering, will happen when a driver's eight-track quadraphonic recording of Disco Queen Donna Summer is interrupted by a disembodied voice warning that the car, or perhaps the listener, is overheating...
Manhattan. Paris Theater, 841 boylston St., daily at 1, 3, 5, 7, 8:45, and 10:15 p.m. Midnight show Friday and Saturday...