Word: queues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kevin Costner is a big star. He dances with wolves, he fields his dreams, he plays Robin Hood in a California accent, and lines form outside the local plex that are longer than the queue of creditors at an S&L. Star quality: people want to watch him on the big screen. Star power: tens of millions of people will pay for the privilege. And keep on paying. His western smash, Dances with Wolves, has been filling theaters for nine months now. Last week more folks went to see it than Return to the Blue Lagoon, which...
...that when he arrived in Sriperumbudur, he barely paused before wading into the crowd. A woman, judged to be Tamil and in her late 20s, pushed her way forward to the red-carpeted greeting queue and handed him a garland. As she bent forward deferentially, as if to touch his feet, a sophisticated explosive device went off with a huge blast, triggered by a manual detonator. It killed him instantly, ripping into his torso and mutilating his face beyond recognition. It also killed at least 15 others. A policewoman lay dead with both legs severed. Nearby was a slain photographer...
...they have languished in the long queue of cars on the Iraqi side of the border for two weeks. Khaleda and her friends, seeing the hardships ahead in the refugee camp, are among a very small group who have decided to go back to their parents and take a chance that Saddam will honor his pledge of amnesty for the Kurds. "We can't stand it," she says. "At home we have a nice big house and lots of money. We don't trust Saddam. But we hope he will leave us alone." Nothing in her face shows that...
...Hurd journeyed last month to meet with Kuwait's government-in-exile and seek postwar business. "The Crown Prince has said he will look favorably on Kuwait's supporters," says John Lace, managing director of Britain's Babcock Energy, which builds power plants. "So we are second in the queue." As if to confirm that, Kuwait last week awarded Britain's Attwoods PLC $1 billion to clear the war's rubble and debris...
...trendiest queue these days is the one outside McDonald's in Pushkin Square. The three-hour wait for a glimpse of life abroad -- which is more precious than the Big Macs themselves -- has supplanted such cultural diversions as visiting the Bolshoi, which is usually either closed or touring abroad anyway. On a recent Sunday, a troupe of young actors staged a skit for waiting patrons in the McDonald's line. Thus the performers were fulfilling the oft-stated but little-realized communist goal of bringing culture to the masses by going to where the masses can always be found...