Word: counterman
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...lights a cigarette, and her friend asks the counterman if his bagel is ready yet. Just about, the counterman says, and he throws a couple of bagels on the grill. Things are busy for him, even at this hour. A thin man with a bad crossbite is drinking black coffee and waiting for a blueberry muffin, another guy with a German accent is hunched over a plate of fried eggs and toast, and a third customer is sipping at a lime rickey and watching his raw hamburger patty start to smolder. That's close to capacity for The Tasty--only...
Jerry has finished his bagel, and he stands up to put on his jacket. His friend puts out her cigarette and gets into her down vest, and the two of them head for the door. The counterman is talking on the pay-phone--"Yeah, 24 hours," he is saying--but he puts his hand over the mouthpiece and shouts, "Hey, the bill...
...girl shakes her head. "Listen, Jerry, can you take care of mine? I'm cleaned out," she asks. Jerry can: he goes back and settles with the counterman. The girl puts four quarters in the cigarette machine, puts the pack into her purse, and the two of them leave The Tasty...
...film's costars, Alexandra Paul, 18, and Daryl Hannah, 20, landed their roles is an equally drafty tale, one that could have been cooked up by the counterman at Schwab's drugstore. Alexandra, a graduate of preppie Groton, turned up at a New York audition for Dolls and was whisked off to the coast. Daryl was a Hollywood ingenue-in-waiting. Soon they may become household manes. Both are "discoveries" of Charlie's Angels Producer Leonard Goldberg, 48, who is already talking about stretching Paper Dolls out into a series. On TV, your plots can never...
...intern-friend scanned the menu--a decaying chalk-board with a few scrawlings on it--and finally asked for a Tab and a tuna-fish sandwich. The counterman produced an old can of tuna from the back of a shelf under the grill and spilled some Pepsi into a highball glass...