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Fyodorov has been in the food-service business since 1964, starting as a busboy and working his way up to become director at the Metropol, one of 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...
...killed 96 people. Police said Escudero admitted his role in the second worst hotel fire in U.S. history after witnesses led investigators to him. He was accused of 96 counts of murder, as well as charges of arson and conspiracy. The next day authorities arrested Armando Jimenez Rivera, a busboy, for allegedly providing Escudero with the fuel. Both men pleaded innocent; further arrests are expected...
...first began, this woman--whose name I never did catch and who I think got Quadded, because I've only seen her about twice since then--looked pretty flustered and mad. But as her indignation proved increasingly futile, she seemed to relax a little bit. By the time the busboy showed up with a mop, I think she was even laughing...
...book, indeed, are those which convey the unseemly, but too often prevalent, aspects of Cobb's personality. He was, for one thing, an unreconstructed racist of the most virulent nature. Alexander recounts in sickening detail the numerous incidents during which Cobb would unmercifully browbeat some poor Black busboy or servant. Cobb also had a streak of hot temper that plagued him throughout his entire career and afterwards, making him a host of enemies and dissolving much of the reservoir of good will that would undoubtedly have accumulated among fans and teammates owing to his spectacular on-the-field exploits...
...asked him where he ate if he didn't eat at the food project meal. Some of the more genteel street people prefer "scarfing" or "vulching" (an invented verb form of "vulture"), which consists of waiting inconspicuously in a restaurant until a customer finishes and then beating the busboy to the plates of leftovers. But this method doesn't work for Joseph, who looks too hungry to go by unnoticed. Instead, he spends his evening scavenging Berkeley's dumpsters for food...