Word: waiting
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...become a matter of choice: lightsaber-wielding guys and Harry Potter-bespectacled kids happily line up to commune before a film. "In the '80s, if you wanted to go see a movie on a Friday night, you braced yourself for a three- or four-hour wait sometimes," says Mark Harris, author of the recent Hollywood history Pictures at a Revolution. Harris recalls standing in the summer heat for hours to see Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and witnessing fellow line jockeys "literally fainting. A couple of people threw up and there was a fistfight...
...previously not needed a license, he now had to apply for one and could not stage any shows until he received it. He hopes and expects that such stringency is temporary and that when the Olympics have come and gone, things will return to normal. "I can't wait until they're done," he says with a sigh...
...handle stage fright? -John Arndt Grand Rapids, Mich.The bigger the venue is, the better. Every time I go back to China, I play in stadiums that fit 10,000 to 12,000 people. They cheer like it's a pop concert. After the show, I need to wait two hours before I can get out of the stadium...
...another sign of unhappiness with the Bush regime, McCain's political advisers were exploring whether he could run for President, and win, as a third-party candidate against Bush in 2004. The assumption was that McCain was too old to wait until 2008 (he'll turn 72 in August) and too toxic within the party to run as a Republican again. "Not only was 2008 seen as too late, but we couldn't get our heads around the idea that he would be acceptable [to the G.O.P.]," says one of those advisers. But running as an independent was deemed futile...
...there's not enough time to organize such a meeting, there's one surefire way Obama can meet Iraqis. At the main entrances to the Green Zone, there's almost always a long queue of folks waiting to get in, usually to visit a government office or a member of Parliament. Once they get past the elaborate security checks, they're usually made to wait on the lawns of the building that serves as Iraq's Parliament. It would be relatively easy for Obama to send a member of his entourage, accompanied by an Iraqi translator, to invite a random...