Word: queues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government institutions that are strong on religious education. Another project will further cement Alwaleed's stature: the 30-story Kingdom Center, the tallest skyscraper in the Middle East, scheduled to open in downtown Riyadh in 2000. Associates say he is too busy making money to try jumping the queue of royal succession, but he hasn't ruled out becoming a political force...
...movie theater at Coolidge Corner--Boston's only non-profit moviehouse "with a big screen"--is offering up a weekly treat from cinema heaven. Every Wednesday at 7:30 pm during the month of July, one has only to take the T (Green Line) down to the Corner and queue up for a ticket to see one of four films that comprise the "70-mm series...
Hundreds of people stand outside a bank in a post-apocalyptic city that looks like a remnant of the Batman movie set. Spiders crawl on the hands of the tellers. Maniacal security guards laugh at the interminable queue of customers waiting to conduct their transactions...
...stand in line outside a Santa Monica multiplex on a Monday afternoon waiting to see The First Wives Club is to see women climbing the movie Stairmaster and getting someplace. The queue is long and homogeneous. Nearly everyone is female; these are the ladies who lunch taking a movie aperitif. Inside, the audience laughs along with the gags about women's fear of aging ("If I give you one more face-lift," Dr. Rob Reiner warns Hawn, "you're gonna be able to blink your lips") that make the movie a more genteel version of the misogynistic She-Devil...
...given up on doing much of anything before the election, except for one piece of business--the Defense of Marriage bill, a pre-emptive strike at the possibility that a Hawaiian court may recognize unions between homosexuals. It's not immediately apparent why this bill should jump the queue ahead of the potential bankruptcy of Medicare and bills to keep the government running. The Hawaiian courts will not rule until the end of the year, and it will be 1997 before same-sex couples wed in the islands could wash up on these shores, expecting shoes and rice...