Word: waits
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...wait a moment. There's something wrong with this picture. Hasn't this all been settled--and in the negative? It certainly seemed so. In 1988, just as scientific testing and historical scholarship had convinced ever greater numbers of intelligent people that the shroud might indeed be Jesus' burial cloth, its keepers elected to allow one more test. They distributed small samples to three laboratories for radiocarbon dating. Several months later, the labs revealed their verdict: the linen of the cloth dated no earlier than the late Middle Ages. Skeptics rejoiced; romantics were subdued. One crestfallen enthusiast later wrote...
...risk, probably won't go on tamoxifen. But they may well end up taking the next generation of safer, tamoxifen-based drugs, which are already under development, or the generation after that. Until those drugs come along, Visco of the National Breast Cancer Coalition urges women to go slowly. "Wait," she says. "The best thing to do is wait...
...gross-out effects. One tiny creature, the Termite-ator, blows "snot" at the audience (you will get wet). A stink bug backs up to the screen and engulfs the crowd in his sulfurous stench (face it, fart jokes are funny). At the end, the human audience is asked to wait while the bug audience leaves the theater, and--eww!--it feels as if cockroaches are scurrying under your butt...
Rohde and Comstock help fulfill an old Disney credo: the park is the ride. If the wait time is too long for the big attractions, you can have a blast just glomming the architecture and atmosphere. That is truest in Animal Kingdom. The backrests of park benches are carved as turtles, eagles, crocodiles. Harambe, the African "village" near the safari ride, is not idealized in Magic Kingdom fashion. It is stylized: worn, with cracked pavements below buildings of a Moorish-Disney design that might be called "mosqueteer." For visitors with an antic mind and a free year or two, Dinoland...
QUENTIN TARANTINO Bad boy actor-director is shish kebabbed by Broadway critics for his thug role in Wait Until Dark...