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...trouble all started at the Century Plaza Hotel, where the sheik was staying. Waiter Mario Rivas claims he delivered a basket of fruit to the sheik's room and that the sheik was furious because the food was two hours late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Turning the Other Sheik | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...normally don't pilfer fragments of neutron-bomb jokes from my good friend Shecky Green, but this week, it's for a good reason. Shecky and I were vacationing together last week (the Concord was never so supersonic...), and one night in the dining hall, as the waiter was bringing around those gorgeous little kreplachs, Shecky mounted the table and spontaneously burst into a series of his best jokes ever. Then, faster than you could say, "My mother-in-law is so annoying that..," he'd launched into an evocative Totie Fields imitation, and the dining room crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half a Headline | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...expensive suits and an occasional pretty woman. He is an unflappable sort-but since he is the hero of a Luis Buñuel film, his poise is soon put to extraordinary tests. Terrorists, for no discernible reason, begin to blow up cars in his tranquil Seville neighborhood. A waiter at his favorite restaurant serves him a martini containing a huge fly. His butler, ordinarily a paragon of civility, starts to give him Up. Somehow Mathieu remains untouched by all these shenanigans, but then he falls in love with Conchita, a ravishing young virgin. Though Conchita professes to adore Mathieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Orderly Chaos | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...accoladas for this production of The Club must go primarily to its troop of stars. Katherine Benfer, Lisa McMillan, Maggie Task and Carolyn Val-Schmidt succeed spectacularly in their masquerade as males (as do Jean Bonard as the club's waiter, Cookie Harlin as the bellboy, and Catherine cappiello as the maestro). The four women manage to mask their sex completely, making the play's conclusion unexpected and delightful, rather than just a foolish coda to a musical frolic. While the actresses use gestures and facial expressions skillfully, it is their vocal talents that carry the play. The Club...

Author: By Judy Bass, | Title: Jimmy and the New Goliath | 11/16/1977 | See Source »

Undergraduates staying at the YMCA have one definite advantage. Alicia Waiter, a resident assistant there, said last week that the students there are charged $50 less than the college's usual room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Room With a View | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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