Word: napkinics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe Alumnae House which is simply delightful. The rooms, while not elegant, are clean, bright and furnished with little niceties at plants and fresh flowers. I wonder if any Harvard Radcliffe (?) women who uses that sloppy bathroom would put a flower in her room or preter a lunch napkin in to one of paper...
Getting a post on Alex's staff requires no references. The manager asks you to fill out a napkin with name and telephone number, and before you can say "extra seasoning," you've got your multi-head T-shirts and grease-stained apron. Training begins immediately, with stern warnings about accuracy and whispered tales of employees skimming off the top at a clip of $120 a day. Like most, I struggled not to bless customers with extra change and never had time to consider seriously any plans for extra-curricular profits...
...autonomous anymore, economically or politically? Who can pretend that the federal government should cede its power to assure basic needs across the country to decentralized, parochial and inefficient authorities? Apparently, the same people who last year at this time waited for the Laffer Curve to slope off of a napkin and on to their bank statements. They took the tax cut and ran leaving without even fulfilling their side of the bargain--restoring business confidence...
...Caroline of Monaco. "She tells me," he confides, "that when anyone in their family has elbows on the table, her grandmother jabs them with a fork." In the lull that follows, Bridget Dunham chews meditatively on her water goblet, picks her teeth, then dives under the table after her napkin. Garo Tokat loses a battle with his artichoke, which rockets off the plate and onto his lap. Tiffany Field, her ivory dress askew, is so absorbed in her food that her long blond tresses marinate in the vinaigrette...
People afflicted with this problem often find chewing on "taboo" food to be the only way to stay thin, yet still enjoy the taste of high-calorie foods. After eating a low-calorie meal, "napkinics" will indulge in breads, pies, casseroles, cakes--in short, anything solid that can be chomped on and not swallowed--and then surreptitiously spit the food into a napkin when they think no one is looking. They will then either drop the napkins onto the floor, make frequent trips to the garbage to throw them out, or stuff them into their pockets or purses...