Word: queues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind outlet, the Golden Arch Cafe in Hartsville, Tenn., a small town northeast of Nashville. The 1950s-style restaurant, complete with jukebox, offers such unlikely McFare as lasagna, pork chops and Salisbury steak. The menu includes ordinary hamburgers, but no Big Macs or Chicken McNuggets. While patrons still queue to order their food at a take-away counter, the meal comes on ceramic plates, and is brought to the table by servers sporting bowling shirts...
...park's most anticipated attractions, a pair of $40 million thrill rides based on King Kong and Jaws, were operating sporadically or not at all, thanks to last-minute tinkering with the daunting computer systems that run them. When the Earthquake ride was closed for repairs, those in the queue chorused an angry demand for "Re-fund! Re-fund!" (and got it). Others stood in line nearly two hours to experience Spielberg's rapturous E.T. Adventure, one of the two functioning rides...
...months after the 1968 Soviet invasion ended the Prague Spring of intellectual freedom in his homeland, Czech playwright Vaclav Havel joined many of his countrymen lining up at the U.S. embassy in quest of a visa. Like most of those in the queue, he had something to flee from: the hard-line new government wanted him out and had banned his works from production or publication. Unlike most of the others, Havel had someplace to go: three of his plays had won acclaim in the West, and he had been offered both a job at New York City's prestigious...