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Brewer's: Nutcrack Night

All Hallows' Eve, when it is customary in some places to crack nuts in large quantities. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894NutcrackersNut-brown Maid A B C D…

Brewer's: Twelfth Night

(Shakespeare). The serious plot is taken from Belleforest's Histories Tragiques. The comic parts are of Shakespeare's own invention. (See Befana.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…

Brewer's: Walpurgis Night

The eve of May Day, when the old pagan witch-world was supposed to hold high revelry under its chief on certain high places. The Brocken of Germany was…

Brewer's: Watch Night

December 31st, to see the Old Year out and the New Year in by a religious service. John Wesley grafted it on the religious system, but it has been…

Brewer's: White Night

(A). A sleepless night; hence the French phrase “Passer une nuit blanche. ” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894White…

Brewer's: Arabian Nights

(The). First made known in Europe by Antoine Galland, a French Oriental scholar, who translated them and called them The Thousand and One Nights (from the number of nights occupied in…

Brewer's: Mistress of the Night

(The). The tuberose is so called because it emits its strongest fragrance after sunset. Sometimes, on a sultry evening, when the atmosphere is highly electrified, the fading flowers of the…

Night Falls on Manhattan

Director/Writer: Sidney LumetDirector of Photography:David WatkinEditor:Sam O'SteenMusic:Mark IshamProduction Designer:Philip RosenbergProducers:Thom Mount and Josh KramerParamount; R; 115…

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

By: Alfred UhryDirector: Ron LagomarsinoSets: John Lee BeattyCostumes: Jane GreenwoodLighting: Kenneth PosnerSound: Tony MeolaIncidental Music: Robert WaldmanOpened: 2/97 at the Helen Hayes…

One Night Stand

Director/Writer/Music: Mike FiggisDirector of Photography:Declan QuinnEditor:John SmithProduction Designer:Waldemar KalinowskiProducers:Mike Figgis, Annie Stewart and Ben MyronNew Line; R;…