As it happens, Koch, McGinn, and I will be discussing these questions on Friday, at the World Science Festival, at N.Y.U., the site of one of Woody Allen's most famous stand-up lines: "I was thrown out of N.Y.U. in my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics exam," he says, because "I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me".
Once she stood up, the line proceeded.
When boarding began, more than half of the passengers in the gate area stood up and formed lines as the agent announced the priority-boarding procedures.
Suddenly beckoned by a police officer, the group stood up, formed a line and traipsed through the almost deserted border crossing, and within minutes were in the Austrian town of Spielfeld.
At the sound of the megaphone blaring from the corridor outside their classroom, they stood up, formed a line and started moving towards the door in an orderly fashion.
Speeches were no problem compared with "having to stand up and remember lines in a scene opposite 19-year-old kids".
He marks their victories and failures and, with brutal calm, shares some of the other lessons schoolchildren learn on their way to the office, factory, shop, unemployment line and perhaps even prison: sit down, raise your hand, stand up, get in line, keep quiet.
Oak trees stand up in the line of those hedges, or out in the open fields, features of the landscape that has slowly evolved, and which the Selwood living landscape scheme now seeks to recognise.
The geese shrieked and ran for the other side of the fence line, and Eduardo stood up quickly, his carefree air marred briefly by concern.
When Mr. Dodd announces it, Vita stands up and recites Helen's lines.
He stood up, but still crossed the line in 12th.
