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Word: nightwork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California cities after his parents, both teachers, were divorced. At 14, he began working the graveyard shift at a pizza house in National City, a San Diego suburb. "It was a tiny community," he likes to recall. "The main drag was a transvestite, and the average age was deceased." Nightwork hampered his high school studies, but not his education. "I encountered a whole different element-people a lot older than me, pool hustlers and Mafioso types. I grew up real fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tom Waits: Barroom Balladeer | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...have just seen: usually they don't remember the key story points and usually they don't know what it was all about. And, of course, they are dreadful bores. Robert Altman, generally the most interesting of directors, forthrightly admits that 3 Women is based on some nightwork he recently did, but his candor regarding the source of the movie does not redeem it from tedium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dreamscape | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

FICTION 1-Curtain, Christie (1 last week) 2-The Choirboys, Wambaugh (2) 3-Saving the Queen, Buckley (4) 4-Ragtime, Docforow (3) 5-1876, Vidal (7) 6-Trinity, Uris 7-The Gemini Contenders, Ludlum (9) 8-The Boys from Brazil, Levin 9-In the Beginning, Potok (5) 10-Nightwork, Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

FICTION 1-Curtain, Christie (1 last week) 2-The Choirboys, Wambaugh (2) 3-Ragtime, Doctorow (3) 4-Saving the Queen, Buckley (4) 5-In the Beginning, Potok (5) 6-The Greek Treasure, Stone (6) 7-1876, Vidal 8-Nightwork, Show (7) 9-TheGemini Contenders, Ludlum (9) 10-Audrey Rose, DeFelitta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...Nightwork, Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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