Word: waitere
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...like falling in love with cruelty. But Author Mishima's world is rich in nothing if not masochists, male as well as female. For while he is at it. Yuichi gives just as bad a time to his gay boy friends, who range up the scale from waiter to automobile manufacturer...
...umbrella, Cuccinello and other artists can place a ball just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated an art as needlepoint and gets about as much attention." Investigating other byways of sport, Broun reported on the Copacabana waiter who felt that "presiding over the organized frenzy" of the club complemented his training as an umpire, the little-known pro golfer who, without an army of following fans, is "as lonely as a mountain climber," and the football game between two highbrow Eastern colleges that "left the field strewn with contact...
...great effort at spontaneity; Sellers and Producer-Director Blake Edwards worked with a minimal script and checked each scene with instant playback on video tape. The result of the ad-lib approach, however, is not a swinging riot of originals but a parade of old reliables. A drunken waiter weaves around with his tray of drinks, the toy arrow with a suction cup on its end finds its way to someone's' forehead as inevitably as the foaming detergent finds its way into the swimming pool...
...they unfailingly give away the speaker's social status. Milton Glaser and Jerome Snyder visit "one of the last remaining Old World markers" under the elevated in East Harlem. Gloria Steinem re-creates the years that Ho Chi Minh spent in New York, when he worked as a waiter and laundryman. And a freelance reviewer, Clare Boothe Luce, discovers that John Kenneth Galbraith is a better economist than novelist when she reviews his first novel Triumph, about U.S. fumbling in a Latin American country...
...hilarious parts are also home-movie: the maid chewing an apple as she answers the phone makes you laugh from inside. And there is the enterprising bellboy who turns up as a waiter in a restaurant and finally as the owner of the ski lodge where Robert catches up with Catherine...