Word: midnightly
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...Around midnight, Navarro-Valls, who is a medical doctor, confirmed that there were complications to the flu and the pope had suffered acute laryngeal tracheitis and experienced a "larynx spasm crisis," a clinical way to say he'd had difficulty breathing. The cynical among the Vatican press corps believed that the "flu" that had been reported in the official bulletins was in fact a cover for something much worse. Sources at the Vatican discount that scenario, noting both the Pope's relatively robust appearance Sunday and the fact that the basic details about his condition were being released at regular...
...around 9 p.m. and end at a club five or six hours later. "We definitely drink more" in Britain, he says. "It's just the culture to get pissed, I guess." Outside, two young men square off drunkenly but stop when a police van glides by. Between midnight and 4 a.m., casualties stream into the Queen's Medical Center emergency department: a motionless clubber on a stretcher whom the Kevlar-clad ambulance crew wheels straight to a treatment room; a youth whose injuries - a lacerated hand and a bite on his arm - were sustained in a brawl outside...
...lady in Nebraska rose from her chair, muttering, "That's not so funny, McGee!" With that, she swept into the kitchen to brew a pot of coffee. And no doubt to ponder the mysterious equations of show business that have enabled her son John to become the nation's midnight idol by telling silly jokes like that. --TIME...
...Under Carson, The Tonight Show became Habit Television, which is how the sponsors like it, and most viewers too. Not everyone wanted the Paar caffeine jolt after midnight; what's needed is a pleasing comedy sedative. The ratings underlined the acuity of Carson's choice. After 15 years his audience had nearly tripled Paar's, and accounted for 17% of NBC's revenue...
...enough of cowboys. Happy hour at the Seventeen Saloon, from 5 to 8 p.m., is a convivial crush of Vietnamese cutting loose. One tip: if you're planning to pay a visit, make sure to get there early, as the action is likely to wind down just after midnight. This town may have changed, but it ain't changed that much, pardner...