Word: midnighters
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...Sitting in a prime position on the Australian city's historic waterfront is a three-story sandstone building-assembled by convicts and later used to water them as free settlers-that houses nightclub Round Midnight, tel: (61-3) 6223 2491, and cocktail bar Syrup. The building is quite familiar to the locals-perhaps a little too familiar. "I started coming here when I was 18," says Andrew Corney, who recently bought both bars, "and it still looks the same...
...midnight-to-0200 watch, Radon, anchored off Gabba, monitors instruments and prepares a chart for the next journey. The Torres Strait is a difficult stretch to chart, sometimes requiring 60 wavepoints (or map references) on a single passage. On a radar screen, what appears to be a barge is on course to cross 900 m in front of the ACV's bow. That's too close for comfort, and a warning light begins to flash. On VHF channel 16, after several attempts, Radon makes contact with the chatty master of Barge Express VIII, who alters course. "Roger that! Roger that...
...PlayStation. In Mansour the Radhys have electricity four or five hours a day, no more than during last summer despite repeated promises of improvement. And they never know which four hours it will be, so the women can find themselves doing laundry at dawn or filling water cisterns at midnight. A male in the family has to go out every day for ice to keep food from spoiling...
...Where else could you go at lunchtime and see Andreas Schiff playing the 'Goldberg Variations,' go across the road and watch an Iranian movie, walk a couple blocks to hear Gore Vidal talk, then sit in a sweaty cellar at midnight listening to some stand-up comedy?" asks Shane Danielsen, artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. "There are certainly worse ways than that to spend one's life...
Valenti pointed to the success of the 1969 X-rated film Midnight Cowboy, which won the Academy Award for best picture, as evidence that perceptions about how much violence and sex should be shown on screen are always changing...