Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech schedule required the hotel staff to serve and clear the meal in 80 minutes. In addition to the highly drilled waiters (required by the hotel to be at least 6 ft tall) Mompezat trained 76 hotel chefs and 120 kitchen staffers to assist in the 4½ hours of cooking and carving...
Dreben is also a close friend of Rosovsky's and a long-standing member of the dean's small "kitchen cabinet" of academic deans. This council--which also includes, among others, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba '53 and Dean of the Graduate School Edward L. Keenan '57--carries much of the Faculty's administrative load...
...scenario is almost invariably the same. A young, go-getting executive invites an important client to a business lunch, but everything goes wrong. The maître d' seats them at a table next to the kitchen. Then the executive orders what he thinks is healthful yet trendy fare: Lillet before the meal, followed by fruit salad, chicken à la king, and date-nut bread for dessert. But the executive's entrée costs him the client's respect, and worse, the deal. Reason: his food and drink give the wrong impression...
...death, considering all the options. We can't scare him to death vegetables are fearless. Son Teddy joins the scheme enlisting the help of his moronic girlfriend. While never appearing onstage, a monstrous nurse named Emerald registers her indignation from time to time with a violent thump on the kitchen door...
...Ross, which opened on Broadway last week after earlier spins at the National Theater in London and the Goodman in Chicago, he shows his peddlers caught in the entrepreneurial act. One pitchman recounts a conquest he made by sitting, silent and motionless, for 22 minutes in his customers' kitchen. Another salesman flimflams his client with a hilarious spiel about life, existentialism and the pleasure principle; the monologue has all the narrative logic of Dadaist graffiti, but it whets the appetite, clinches the sale, sets the sucker up for the kill...