Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diane Keaton: Worth the Wait...
...FOREIGNERS living there, turn-of-the-century Peking remained a "Forbidden City." The pleasures of the hidden quarters, lying in wait for the foreign touch, only suggested the more refined, if more hidden, pleasures of the Imperial count. With their triumph over the native Boxer rebels in 1900, Westerners penetrated the political decadence of Peking. But beneath its new mask of subservience to the West, the reality of the old court, filled with power-hungry eunuchs, stocked with useless riches, was preserved...
Thirty-six and a half hours to... takeoff? Lindbergh made it to Paris in less time 50 years ago, when Freddie Laker was a toddler of four. What's more, Lindy did not have a toothache, as did I, and he was warmer and drier. My wait began at noon Sunday in London-style rain and drizzle outside the Laker Travel Center in Queens, New York, five miles from Kennedy Airport. Not until 12:38 a.m. Tuesday-1% hours behind schedule -did we lift off from Kennedy...
...long wait occurred because I had to be on that first London-bound Skytrain, and it attracted the kind of people who flock to never-to-be-repeated phenomena. Laker held firmly to the first-come, first-served rule: in London, awaiting the first flight to New York City, Freddie had to sign on as a "crew" member to avoid queuing up. I was 13th in line in New York. First was Nick Ratner, 18, who had hitchhiked and bused from California...
Bauhaus furniture had to wait for decades before going into production-and then those uncomfortable "functionalist" chairs, designed to mortify the flesh of worshipers in the church of absolute form suffered the bizarre irony of becoming expensive status symbols for corporate lobbies. No worker's bottom would ever touch them...