Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter was rushing to Boston, an unusually anxious Gerald Ford went to sleep in the White House shortly after midnight, without knowing whether he had become one of the few Presidents ever to lose a primary election. He awoke at 5:30 a.m., eagerly turned on a radio-and discovered he had defeated California's Ronald Reagan. Although the margin was only 1.2% (a switch of fewer than 660 votes, out of 108,331 cast, would have changed the outcome), Ford declared he was "delighted" by his first election victory of any kind outside Grand Rapids. A reporter asked...
Enraptured Paris. The space is never real. Cornell's L 'Egypte de Mile, Cléo de Mérode, 1940, is not the Egypt seen by Flaubert, detachedly noting the gleam of his white socks at midnight on the Nile. Cornell had never been, or wished to go, to that Egypt. But in his mind the image of Cléo de Mérode, a courtesan who so enraptured Paris society in the '90s that even Proust is said to have murmured "Gloria in excelsis Cléo!" when she walked into Maxim...
...could learn something about graceful, effective prose from studying his work." From Rome, Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof traveled with Vidal to his hillside villa in Ravello. "After a tour of the house and a drink of Vidal's home-bottled wine, we went out to dinner and talked until midnight," says Amfitheatrof. "By then the file was all but writing itself." Meanwhile New York Correspondent Roland Flamini talked to friends, foes, editors and other authorities on the author in the U.S. The story was edited by Stefan Kanfer and researched by Nancy Newman...
...Miles after midnight my fingers rattle like tin on her belly, on the tight skin of a dream--"Oh, once I lived the life of a millionaire...
After his father died in 1968 and his brother suffered a stroke in 1971, Gaither worked from 5 a.m. sometimes until midnight helping his mother manage the 400-acre family farm--and still maintained a near straight-A grade average...