Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...runs down if he doesn't get those eight hours' sleep." How then did Reagan win the governorship twice without exhaustive efforts? The answer: His two opponents, Pat Brown and Jesse Unruh, were easy setups for him, and it was the staff that burned the midnight oil. An adviser who helped direct Reagan's 1968 presidential fling says: "Things have come pretty easy for the Governor. Really, he's never been tested hard...
...goes through people like water." Especially stage managers. "She eats them," says Lighting Designer Helmsley. The stage manager must follow schedules meticulously and see that everyone else does too. It is not an easy task when the boss disregards any regimen. Caldwell may rehearse her singers from morning to midnight, then keep a crew on until 4 or 5 a.m. for lighting rehearsals. During the latter, says Helmsley, "she invariably goes to sleep...
...watched the starveling league die midway through its second season. Along with more than 350 other players, he had become a victim of the '70s retrenchment in sport. After a roaring decade of unprecedented growth, professional sport in some ways looks like a Cinderella industry heading toward midnight. Of the 23 teams in the American Basketball Association and World Hockey Association, only one is in the black. "There's no question about it," says Attorney Bob Woolf, who has negotiated hundreds of contracts, "the pendulum is swinging back. We're in a period of contraction...
Fantasia, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30 and 9:45 p.m.; midnight shows Friday and Saturday...
...vote total at midnight was Perk 97,892 and Pinkney...