Word: midnighters
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...Skip the shower on Sunday morning before you leave for that walk of shame; you’ll be saving water even if you’re not saving face. 2) Burn the midnight oil—literally—and do your calculus by candlelight. Accuse your TF of environmental insensitivity if he downgrades you for wax drips. 3) Unplug your “personal massager.” 4) Unplug your other “personal massager.” 5) Turn off the heat in all the rooms in your entryway and count how many days...
Today, the highly anticipated film “300,” a Frank Miller graphic novel adapted into a “Sin City”-styled cinematic extravaganza, opens in theaters across the world. For fans who stood shivering in lines last night to catch a midnight showing, “300” is a worthy piece of modern art, blending Greek history and shed Persian blood. Some would argue it is little more than another desperate Hollywood attempt to prostitute for the mass media any meaning history has. But regardless of where you personally stand...
...reliving that 24-hour work experience. "Friends think I'm sold on the Kool-Aid," she says. "But at midnight there are others working alongside me. Here I have the energy like I'm working with my family: you butt heads sometimes, but at the end of the day you're all about sink or swim...
...Later that afternoon, a Black Hawk helicopter began circling the hilltop. In the guesthouse at the crossroads, owner Elfrida Barros gathered her five children around her in bed. "I was thinking that the big helicopter will bomb us and kill us all," she told TIME. Around midnight, she and other residents heard the sound of tramping boots. As soldiers moved toward the compound, the Black Hawk was joined by a second helicopter. At about 1:45 a.m., they landed in the corn patch tended by Jose Francisco and his family, 50 m below the rebel compound. Francisco says...
...don’t even know what [the technical crew] does. Before I came to Harvard I had never done any backstage stuff except for high school theatre, helping out with costumes or a little painting, but nothing like this.... [Last night] I was home at eight, before that midnight, before that nine. And my roommates will ask me why I did it. They definitely don’t get it. Sometimes I don’t understand it when things are behind or problems come up, as they always do. But when the curtain opens–that?...