Word: queue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dancing, drinking and casual lovemaking, the festival has a bittersweet air. After their nightlong revels, Budapest's residents pick their way to work along pock-marked sidestreets, gaze absently at the stripped-bark scaffolding on buildings gutted by Soviet tanks during the 1956 rebellion, queue up for the consumer goods that always seem to be in short supply. The Red army still stays prudently hidden in its camps ringing Budapest, and the hated AVH secret police have been replaced by a less conspicuously murderous bunch known as BKH, but nobody is enthusiastic about the "permissiveness" shown lately by Premier...
Maternity Clinic. Cantinflas will not say, but friends estimate that he doles out nearly $175,000 a year. Each morning, when he is in Mexico City, long lines of people queue up at his door. He reads some 500 letters a month asking for help, and often replies with a check. He is one of Mexico's biggest contributors to the Roman Catholic Church and its charities, and when hurricane, flood or pestilence hits any part of the country, Cantinflas is always one of the first contributors...
...worry." Barnett had showered job promises lavishly while running for Governor, and as soon as he took office he was deluged with hectoring visits and urgent phone calls from people who thought they had been pledged places in his administration. "This is nothing," Barnett said recently, referring to the queue of job claimants outside his office. "At one time we had a line 40 yards long...
...Algiers' Maison Blanche airport, hundreds camped out overnight in order to be first in the morning's queue. A woman refugee offered her car for sale for $100 but found no takers. By week's end, there were so many refugees and so much luggage crowded into the stifling waiting room that twelve women fainted and a mother with three children broke down in hysterics. Shocked by the scene, French repatriation officials declared the airport off limits to new refugees until the 4,500 already there could be flown out. In the next two weeks, to deal...
...experimental Viennese theater. It was written in 1941, but has rarely been performed (a literarily distinguished cast headed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir once gave it a formal reading under Albert Camus' direction in Paris). Its title, Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue, comes out Wie man Wünsche beim Schwanz packt in German, which more or less means "How to Catch a Wish by the Tail." Described as a surrealistic carnival revue, Artist Picasso's play catches little else. Performed by twelve young actors, it is a disheveled stream...