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...Simpson appears to be a suspect in the murder of his ex-wife. Nicole Brown Simpson's bloodied corpse was found alongside the body of a male friend, Ronald Lyle Goldman, who worked as a waiter in a restaurant near her home. According to two Los Angeles papers, adding to the speculation surrounding the former football star and sports personality is the discovery of a blood-soaked glove in Simpson's driveway that matches the one found near the death scene. Simpson, however, has not been arrested, and his attorney denies that he is even under investigation.To post your view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMER FOOTBALL STAR CAUGHT UP IN MURDER CASE | 6/14/1994 | See Source »

Almost lost in the furor was the play itself, an unflaggingly witty and often moving slice of life among the young, hip and artsy in Calgary, Canada. A gay painter (Michael J. Blankenship), blocked in his work, tries to jolt himself by taking a job as a waiter. To help the young couple who own the restaurant, he induces his closest female friend, a beguilingly bitchy columnist, to tout it in print. The place thrives. So does passion between the painter and the young husband (Damian Baldet, a conservatory student giving a captivating and confidently professional performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Flatfoots and Footlights | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...deep breath and checking their 3-by-5 note cards, and craftily retreats to parable. Zeus, lolling at a seaside cafe, is confronted by Hera's lawyer, who threatens litigation. The father of the gods turns the twit into vinaigrette dressing, pours the stuff over salad, then tells a waiter the greens are wilted and should be fed to pigs. "And bring me a beautiful young woman, passionate but compliant, with small, ripe breasts." Alas, this is Zeus' last good move. In no time he transforms himself into an American tourist, a Lutheran minister from Odense, Pennsylvania. Zeus lusts after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dionysus At 50 and More Woe | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...garnishes her narrative with outright cliches. Jane Louise's schoolmate, Edie, scandalizes her wealthy WASP family when she drops out of cooking school in Paris to marry Mokie, a Black man. Mokie, in turn, laughs at how uncomfortable he makes white people feel when they mistake him for a waiter. Sven, Jane Louise's colleague, manages to think and talk about nothing but sex, to send a frisson of enigma and anticipation down every woman's spine, yet maintain his job as director of the design department of an important publishing house. Erna, Jane Louise's boss, spawns a brood...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Colwin's Big Storm More Like a Drizzle | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...waiter in Memphis, who's to say the same won't happen to him? As long as I can make enough money to pay rent and feed myself, and still have plenty of time left over to devote to the reorganization of my CDs and rereading old Russian novels, I'll be happy...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: There is something wrong | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

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