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...Shakespearean matinee idol, this thin-lipped Irishman with puddingy skin and a huge head piked like a pumpkin on his stocky frame. He lacks conventional star magnetism: the athletic abandon, the flaming sexuality, the audacity of interpretation that risks derision to achieve greatness. Expect no swooning teenagers to queue at his stage door, no desperate fan to write him suicide notes. Anyway, he would reject that form of hero worship, for his personality radiates shopkeeper common sense. He is a model of Thatcherite initiative in a British arts scene of radical distemper...
...American embassy in Moscow, jamming the guarded main entrance and snaking 100 yards down Tchaikovsky Street. The crowds push and break into noisy arguments. On particularly rowdy days some desperate applicants offer Soviet policemen as much as 700 rubles ($1,120) to sneak them to the front of the queue. Soviet emigration, for so long a trickle, has turned into an avalanche. Each year for three years the number of emigres has doubled, and so far in 1989 some 80,000 Soviets have applied to leave. More than 90% want...
Each day a long queue of the curious would form. Inside the packed gallery, people would argue and gesticulate in front of abstract paintings -- a red square on a white ground, a fragmented cubist portrait -- done a generation before their birth...
...system is supposed to tame the Soviet Union's problems of waste, inefficiency and food shortages. Citizens continue to queue daily for limited stocks of meat, butter and milk. Small wonder Gorbachev calls food "one of the most important problems we need to solve...
...unable to get on any flight. Hundreds of vacationers missed connections with Florida cruises because flights south were canceled. Hundreds of thousands of airline customers were left holding some $250 million worth of prepaid Eastern tickets. In order to get refunds, those who paid in cash will have to queue up behind Eastern's secured creditors and wait as long as a year...