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Word: queueing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constitution pledges fewer ideological restrictions on the arts and literature, which most Chinese will clearly welcome. When copies of a Chinese translation of Hamlet appeared in a shop on Peking's Wang Fu Ching Street recently, they attracted a queue of buyers that stretched 100 yds. Official journals have railed against "stereotyped writing" and "wornout themes," authorities are again permitting the old customs of ballad singing and storytelling, and movies like the anti-Japanese war film On the Sungari River, banned since the mid-1960s, can again be seen. In general, the Chinese press has gone to great lengths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hundred Flowers, Part 2 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

That was when I had to queue at nine o'clock in the morning a week before a game so I would have a chance to see you. And everyone in Cambridge would jam into Section 19 to be part of the victory celebration...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Four Fabulous Years of Fantasies and Frustrations | 3/7/1978 | See Source »

This is Paris in 1942. The German occupying forces have increased the harassment of Jews, and a major crackdown clearly is coming. Citizens who cannot produce baptismal certificates proving the Christianity of all four grandparents must queue up at physiognomy clinics, where quacks measure noses and cheekbones to spy out the Jewish taint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cheap Chase | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...ever on the queue waiting to buy tickets at 60 Boylston Street, keep on the lookout for Arthur Drinkwater. According to assistant ticket manager Keith Kozlowski, Mr. Drinkwater, who graduated from Harvard in 1900, "comes up to the window and buys tickets for every football game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hang on to Your Tickets | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

Safe Targets. For better or for worse, this is a fairy tale, not a cutting satire. Neither the bullets nor the issues are real. Dick and Jane pick only safe targets; they knock over a telephone company office and win a round of applause from the queue of bill payers. Briskly propelled by Director Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), they skim through their adventures as innocently as a pair of prankish collegians. The only laws they are unable to flout are the iron laws of comic contrivance. They must, it seems, receive an implausible invitation to a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Downward Mobility | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

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