Word: queueing
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...book racks (guy stuff) than from the shelves of best-selling romantic novels (gal stuff). And since 1975, when Jaws proved the wisdom of opening a movie in thousands of theaters on the same day, the pressure has increased for a film to grab big first-weekend numbers. The queue is full of teenage boys and young couples, but, says Rudin, "older women, the main audience for women's movies, don't run out on a Friday night to see a film." A women's film is thus at a severe demographic disadvantage...
...match here on Feb. 13, some mischievous opponents of President Robert Mugabe have an idea for a practical joke. They know most Zimbabweans, unlike South Africans, have never cared for the sport. And in these tough times, people are too busy playing other games - Spot the Shortest Petrol Queue, Pretend You're a Ruling Party Member to Get Food - to pay attention to this one. But there may be a way to get everyone out to the cricket ground. "We might spread a rumor that there's going to be free food," says one local wag. "Then we'll have...
Nabil Saqqar used to hate Saddam Hussein. The 19-year-old Jordanian undergrad has friends who live in Baghdad, and has heard plenty of horror stories about the Iraqi dictator's repressive regime. He recounts some of them for my benefit as we wait in a queue at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Amman. (I'll skip the gory details: suffice it to say that they put me off dinner.) But recently, Nabil's been reassessing Saddam, seeing him in a new light. "You have to admire the fact that, unlike the West, he has consistently stuck to his principles...
...World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War II” might put it, war: a strategy of maximizing resources within limitations. There are papers to write and meetings to attend, admissions committees to impress and social appearances to make. There are always accomplishments in the queue and successes on the schedule...
...were only old enough to realize it, her lover, with all the devotion and myopia true love entails. Harrowing and delicate, this French film transcends case history to become a work of seamless art and broken heart. And for a retreat into luminous, ageless film craft, queue now for Patrice Leconte's L'homme du train, a bittersweet fable about a chatty old schoolteacher (Jean Rochefort) who invites a mysterious gunman (Johnny Hallyday) to stay in his decaying chateau. It's rare to see a film so at ease with its diminutive size, so effortless in its charm and poignancy...