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Others actually had mini-adventures at dinner time. "We went to the Hong Kong, got the menu and everything, and then decided we didn't want to eat there, so my roommate told the waiter that we had an emergency at the airport," recounts Todd A. Bangerter '98, "Then we went to Chef Chow's, where we had eaten just the night before. In fact, they recognized us because I had left a package there Wednesday night and had to go back...
...London restaurant Anne (Katrin Cartlidge of Naked) and her estranged husband meet to discuss their problems. Their conversation is interrupted by a loud argument between a waiter and a customer. The customer leaves, then returns and sprays the room with shots, killing the husband, among others...
...Nabokov "an intelligent show-off." Her 1957 take on Norman Podhoretz, critic, editor and later author of the confessional memoir Making It: "one of these bright youngsters with bright hopes for a nice career." Only three years later, it is "little Podhoretz, already soooo 'tired' like the proverbial Jewish waiter...
...companions are Vatican aides, Sister Tobiana, one of the Pope's Polish nuns-in-waiting, will serve family-style. With guests from outside the city-state, Angelo Gugel, the chief papal valet, dons a waiter's jacket for formal service. The menu is Italian: pasta or antipasto, followed by a meat dish with vegetables and salad, and either fruit with cheese or a Polish pastry for dessert. Asked if the papal cuisine was any good, a French Cardinal once responded: "Coming from Lyons, that's hard for me to say -- but there are a sufficient number of calories...
Gladstone leaps up from the floor to do a limp, hostile jig while the entire cast sings cheerfully, "Isn't it something when the waiter's dead...