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...morning of Aug. 6, 1945, Dr. Fumio Shigeto was waiting in line for a trolley to take him to Hiroshima's Red Cross Hospital. A nurse he knew waved to him, inviting him to join her near the front of the queue. Not wanting to push ahead of the people in front of him, Shigeto declined the offer. At that moment there was a blinding flash, followed by a deafening boom. Most of the people in the line were hurled to the ground, burned and bleeding. Shigeto, who was sheltered by the corner of a reinforced-concrete building, survived...
...kind of nostalgic calendar of the U.S. itself. Except that it is wittier, Same Time, Next Year is a redo of The Fourposter. It is the kind of theatrical fare that fiftyish middle-class marrieds have been starved for on Broadway in recent seasons, and they are likely to queue up for tickets in avid droves...
Four years ago, people would queue up in front of Legal Sea Foods for hours to grab a quick, cheap fish dinner in a crowded room with 100 or so other noisy, hungry people...
...line on Manhattan's Madison Avenue started forming before 8 a.m. each day. By 10 it had reached the proportions of a queue for The Exorcist or a new Linda Lovelace flick, except that there was something different about these people: everyone seemed to be clutching some kind of precious bundle. In fact, bundles of cash are what many of those in line now expect...
...begin as early as the child's "It's my turn," the sense of injustice when brother's piece of cake is larger than his. Fairness, evenhandedness, seems a natural property of equality-first come, first served-and accounts for that deep-seated American prejudice against queue jumpers and insiders' advantages. Equality also speaks to the generous impulses: the readiness to help the other fellow and succor the needy, the unwillingness to seem superior to one's fellow man or lord it over...