Night Shift: Mystery, Desolation
"Nighthawks" (1942), an oil on canvas by American artist Edward Hopper The following piece appeared in Deadline, a publication of the Summer Program for Minority Journalists at the University of California at Berkeley, on September 5, 1980. The night titillates. It frightens. And it soothes the voyagers who are swallowed by it. The night belongs to those who work the graveyard shift. Thomas T. Blaeser, 22, stands in a fluorescent booth at an Emeryville service station from 11