Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What happened in Berlin last week was a combination of the fall of the Bastille and a New Year's Eve blowout, of revolution and celebration. At the stroke of midnight on Nov. 9, a date that not only Germans would remember, thousands who had gathered on both sides of the Wall let out a roar and started going through it, as well as up and over. West Berliners pulled East Berliners to the top of the barrier along which in years past many an East German had been shot while trying to escape; at times the Wall almost disappeared...
...before-and-after picture of homosexuals in the age of liberation. The campy one, very '50s, is witty but a self-denigrating cartoon; his friend, very '80s, acts relaxed even when disclosing that his relationship is turning into an "open" one. The twist in Terrence McNally's midnight-dark comedy, which opened off-Broadway last week, is that the seemingly enviable, self- possessed character lacks the emotional resources to deal with the breakup of a relationship...
...minute the ban was lifted, they were on the move again. At midnight last Tuesday East Germans regained the right to travel to Czechoslovakia that had been taken from them a month ago. Within days more than 8,000 had crossed the border, and by the weekend Czechoslovakia flung open its Western border to let the growing flood pass unhindered into West Germany. Those who stayed behind stepped up the mass demonstrations for reform that have dogged President Egon Krenz from the moment he took office three weeks ago. Hundreds of thousands marched through East Berlin on Saturday calling...
...Omigod, Omigod, it's midterms, I'm late with a 10-page paper, my section leader called me at midnight on Friday to tell me I'm failing--at midnight on Friday--I failed the GRE's, my thesis advisor wants an outline, I have a job interview tomorrow, and my boss wants me to go to work extra hours this week...
...bomb exploded in Bogota shortly before midnight Thursday, killing four people, including a child. Three other small bombs went off Thursday night and a fourth was deactivated, Bogota police reported...