Word: barmaid
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...Slow. Minutes later, Zantzinger strode to the bar for another drink. Mrs. Hattie Carroll, 51, a Negro barmaid, did not move fast enough for him. "What's the matter with you, you black son of a bitch, serving my drinks so slow?" he railed. He beat her with his cane. She collapsed and an ambulance was called...
...thirty. Nevertheless, Mr. Pati knows what he is about, and plays the difficult role of cuckold disabused and reabused with an appropriate balance of tantrum and tears. The supporting players acquit themselves in good style, especially Louis Ponderoso as Boubouroche's card-partner, Potasse, and Karen Lee Monko, the barmaid Amedee. Nobody, I am sure, would have preferred Courteline's original Amedee--a waiter--to Miss Monko's bouncy, blonde and bright-eyed ingenue...
...play by Shelagh Delaney, a Lancashire bus driver's daughter who was 18 when she wrote it, is as good as the best. In her first film script, touched up by Director Tony Richardson, the angry young ma'am displays dramatic drive, concussive humor, a barmaid's ear for dialogue, a slum kitten's shrewdness about people and motives, a melancholy flair for the poetry of wasted lives...
...students can learn that the creature with the most sensitive sniffer is the male silkworm moth, which can detect a female two miles away; that the longest place name belongs to the New Zealand village of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu; and that Mrs. Beverly Nina Avery, a Los Angeles barmaid, holds the record for most spouses in a monogamous society, with 14 husbands, five of whom, she once alleged, broke her nose...
...newly arrived Communist district secretary. When they mistakenly gun down two innocents, doubt sets in: Can there be any real justification for continued bloodletting? After one of the patriots, Maciek (attractively played by "the Polish Jimmy Dean," Zbigniew Cybulski), enjoys a vividly photographed tumble with a sullenly beautiful barmaid, he decides to say farewell to arms, hello to love and possibly life in a university. But the past plays harshly on the present. Maciek is humiliated by charges of desertion and carries out his orders to kill. In the end, he dies horribly and senselessly, as if to say that...