Word: waits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only skate if there is 'black ice.' That's where the whole pond freezes completely through and then you can skate perfect figures. After I skate on it once, then it is no longer black ice because it has been marked up. I wait for it to completely melt and freeze again...
...wait! you say. I'm not like the rest of those workaholics. I have fun. I go to see plays. I hear speakers. I attend concerts. I read poetry for pleasure. I flip through newspapers. I exercise...
...phone calls? I run to the mailbox every day hoping that a letter will arrive offering me a fantastic paid internship with all kinds of perks. Instead, I pull out yellow envelopes from Harvard Telephone Services and Citibank Visa which add to my ever-growing pile of debt. I wait by the phone hoping for an intern coordinator to call asking me for an interview. My phone had two messages the last time that I checked--one from my mother and the other from my bank asking me to pay a delinquent bill...
...hired all of their applicants for the summer? What if the Senate decided it didn't need me? Rather than worry myself with these persisting, unanswered questions, I decided to worry the intern coordinators. I was reassured that my applications were "pending approval," and they told me to just wait...
...fellow actors don't appear to be gettingquite as big a kick out of it. Tarantino's verypresence on stage seems to put them--and theaudience--on edge. It isn't really Quentin'sfault--it's just that Wait Until Dark is aperiod piece, a clever, understand brew ofHitchcockian suspense and late-'60s protofeminism.It hearkens back to the good old days, when drugdealers carried knives, not guns, and when WestSide Story was still considered gritty...