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...patience of a woman suffering in labor, the patience of real creators at work, the patience of people under torture who will not name their friends. But there is also useless, humiliating patience. How can we respect ourselves if we allow such disrespect for ourselves every day? Every queue, every shortage shows our society's disrespect for itself...
...boom season for laughs, moviegoers queue up to see 3 Men and a Baby and the New Year' s brightest comedy, Moonstruck...
Gorbachev acknowledges that his antialcohol campaign is highly unpopular. He once told a group of writers that he was aware of "threats" as well as grumbling from the long lines of people queueing up to buy scarce and expensive vodka. One gag has a man at the end of one of the liquor-store lines announcing that he is so furious he is going over to the Kremlin to shoot Gorbachev. He returns in a few minutes, however, and resumes his place in the queue. "Well, did you do it?" asks a comrade. "You must be joking," the would...
Horror stories abound, especially in the health and postal services. Urgent operations can be postponed for three to four months while a patient waits for a hospital bed. "You can queue up and wait to die," says Ferrarotti, "or you can drop 400,000 lire (($325)) up front to ensure yourself a place." A payoff helps to get things done. In a new study, Professor Franco Cazzola of the University of Catania estimates that the kickback industry, the entrenched system of institutionalized bribery, amounts to 3.3 trillion lire ($2.7 billion) a year. One Turin industrialist admits that he does...
...jumbo yacht business is booming as multimillionaires queue up to buy speedy, high- tech boats from American builders...