Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then one day he had walked into a restaurant and asked for a glass of water, and the waitress looked at him blankly and said, "We don't serve Negroes here." After the many snubs and insults he had received all his life, something snapped. Jimmy threw a mug of water at the waitress and then ran out, terrified because "I had been ready to commit murder from the hatred I carried in my heart...
Bunthorne makes a big point of ignoring his bevy of beat beauties. But when his eternal love appears, air-headed, pink-clad diner waitress Patience (Valerie Bryce), he practically swoons. Though he refuses to read to the slavering masses, he promises her, "I'll read it if you bid me, baby!", launching into an orgy of hilariously over-done verse. Needless to say, Patience understands none of it, and on top of that, she doth not dig the poet...
...Moscow's leading hotels. He dreamed of having his own restaurant for 15 years. "But until Gorbachev came along," he says, "it wasn't possible." Fyodorov surveys the restaurant with a happy, proprietary air. The chef is at the bar discussing the day's menu with a waiter. A waitress is arranging the silverware. The line outside is growing longer. Fyodorov smiles and says, "This is perestroika...
...used to be a waitress in a restaurant, and I knew some lawyers, and they told me to call the American Civil Liberties Union. For a week they didn't accept me. They thought I was just some student mad at my principal. When they did accept me, the A.C.L.U. contacted the school and threatened to take it to court. The school board's lawyers settled out of court. I got the right to print more issues, but I couldn't sell it. We had no money. How could I print without selling...
When I saw your article about that merry gang of architect-builders, the Jersey Devil (AMERICAN SCENE, April 27), I was impressed. Imagine, a house shaped like a football! But there was no modest house in the shape of a coffee cup for a waitress or Ralph Kramden for a bus driver. Unfortunately, these renegade architects, for all their noble ideals, are merely creating playgrounds for the wealthy. Come on, build me, a simple workingman, a house that looks like a guitar or a fox terrier...