Word: moonlights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular routes, elaborate restrictions apply, including penalties for cancellation. But cost cutting has also produced benefits for consumers in the form of attractively priced fares. Eastern, for example, began earning extra income in April by carrying passengers on some of its formerly all-freight runs. Result: the Moonlight Special, a no-frills flight from coast to coast for just...
June Anderson Dance Company: Performance art piece entitled The Magnetic Properties of Moonlight. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., E. Cambridge, near Lechmere T stop...
...movie on cable, an updated It Happened One Night with a junior prom live! soundtrack. But the putative story line--incompatible boy meets non-patible girl, girl rejects boy, girl and boy get thrown together on long trip, fall in love, break up, stumble back in love, kiss in moonlight, roll credits, sell cable rights, ad clicheum--stays mercifully irrelevant in what soon becomes a veritable impros comedy feast coated in Rob Reiner's relentless but unjaded satire...
...gripe about cheap flights. That bit of hyperbole is getting to be closer to the truth as airlines battle to slash fares and frills. Eastern Airlines announced last week that beginning April 1 it will sell seats on late-night freight flights. The coast-to-coast fare for the "Moonlight Special" will be $98, in contrast to $129 for Eastern's least expensive daytime runs...
Many great writers have been obliged to moonlight, some at seemingly incongruous occupations. Christopher Marlowe was a government spy, Henry Fielding a criminal-court justice, Franz Kafka an insurance-company clerk and Herman Melville a customs inspector. Among living writers, Primo Levi has held perhaps the most improbable job. For two decades the Italian author worked as a commercial chemist, analyzing resins and rock samples for makers of varnish and other products. Can literature spring from such mundane matter? Chemistry would seem as impenetrable to the literary imagination as lead...