Word: queue
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Basso Cesare Siepi. Said Bing: "The finest vocal ensemble you can hear anywhere in the world." With those singers, and Verdi's music, Rudolf Bing sat back and hoped for another success. Last week, more than 72 hours before the curtain would rise on Forza, the standing-room queue was already beginning to form outside...
Londoners will queue up for anything from a prizefight to a prime rib, but this time they established a record even for London: they queued up to start a queue. Carrying blankets and food, the first of them began lining up outside the Royal Festival Hall 60 hours in advance. They were allowed to sleep overnight in a corridor. Then the real queue began in front of the box office. In such fashion last week, London music lovers awaited the first English appearance since 1939 of Arturo Toscanini...
...First Symphony, led them through it without halting them once, murmuring bravos and molto benes. "Gentlemen," he told them at the end of a third rehearsal, "you could not have played better. I am very pleased." This week the winners of the reserved-seat lottery and the standing-room queue got to hear what had pleased the Maestro so. London's reaction: 13 years was a long time between Toscaninis, but it was worth the wait...
...thin and wasted face-and often at Juan Perón, who kept long vigils at her glass-topped casket. Sixteen persons were killed, crushed and trampled by the throngs; 3,900 were in hospitals with injuries; thousands of others got first aid. In the 20-block, four-abreast queue were infants in arms and a 102-year-old woman who cried, "I've never known real pain before." To feed the multitude, the army set up 24 field kitchens, gave away sandwiches, oranges, coffee. The street outside Evita's resting place was packed with 8,340 funeral...
...have to replace it by an artificial figure. It must be perfectly done." Says Svanidze: "I learned afterward that the body of Lenin had been replaced by a substitute made at Kazan," and the decomposing body secretly cremated. The body that hundreds of the faithful now patiently queue to see, says Author Svanidze, is a fake...