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...also interesting to watch the different attitudes and approaches of guests to the young man standing obediently in the corner. While some have completely ignored me, and others treated me like they might a busboy, Cokie Roberts and Wendy Wasserstein were charming. I had a 15-minute conversation with The New Yorker's baseball writer, Roger Angell '42, much of it even before we began discussing the philosophy classes we'd taken in Emerson Hall. And watching the interview of a political pundit who preceded him on the show, James Cann asked me, as Sonny Corleone himself might have, "What...
...chance to be human; for once, they aren't running around screaming. The same may be said for a scene in which Angela and her boss, Vanessa (Holly Kretschmer) sit at a lunch counter discussing the various attributes of okra vs. eggplant, under the adoring eye of their busboy, Javier (Spyros Poulios), who likes "both okra and eggplant." These brief, intelligent scenes make you wish there were more moments like them, and fewer in which characters stripped down into rainbow colored underwear and danced, or screamed incoherently about their lives, or dressed in lab coats impersonating scientists...
...same time, Mandela possesses a common touch that no amount of political coaching can inculcate. When Mandela speaks at banquets, he makes a point of going into the kitchen and shaking hands with every dishwasher and busboy. On countless occasions, he will stop in the middle of a street or hallway to talk with a little boy; his questioning has the rhythm of a catechism. "How old are you?" he will say. "Four," the boy might whisper. "Ah, you're a big man, man!" he will reply with a smile. "And what did you have for breakfast today...
...workers slept in their cars and bathed in the restroom -- because, at the minimum wage, housing was not an option. A few miles in the other direction, Salvadoran refugees get $125 in cash for 60-hour weeks of heavy outdoor labor. For them, upward mobility would be a busboy's job at $2.90 an hour plus a cut of the tips...
...crime wave that resembles New York City during a blackout? In this single week, there was an interracial team of angry drug dealers on A Different World, a psychotic killer rudely intruding on an office camping trip on Perfect Strangers, and that laugh riot -- a berserk gun-wielding busboy -- on Sugar and Spice. Even when Suzanne and Julia of Designing Women jetted off on vacation to Japan, probably the world's safest nation, their luggage was promptly stolen in Tokyo's Narita Airport. The thieves, of course, belonged to a criminal class that now exists only on shows determined...