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...deflected longings. In his comedies people always act improbably, but they are full of a sort of fierce wistfulness too. They will eventually go to extraordinary lengths to find romantic fulfillment. Thus Grant's PM finds himself singing carols on Christmas Eve to bratty children. A horny, socially inept waiter (Kris Marshall) flies all the way to Wisconsin hoping for the sex he can't get in London and, of all things, finds it. A couple of movie stand-ins repeatedly get naked for the cameraman, boredly discuss London traffic and don't confess their love until they get their...
...friend from college, who had got engaged the same month. "So, are you going to go through with it?" her friend inquired. "Are you?" Oberle shot back. They decided to write down their answers on cocktail napkins, and when they read each other's "NO," Oberle called for the waiter: "More wine...
...quality food and deliberate dining. As we jokingly tell John that we are embarrassed by the amount of food we’ve consumed, he looks like doesn’t quite get the joke. “Dining is a dying art,” the veteran waiter says gravely. “People used to come in and eat. Now they rush in and are like, ‘I want that, that and that.’ They wolf it down...
...learn most about power when we lose it and are left eating cereal by candlelight on the front stoop. Or helping the waiter and the hairdresser and the deaf man direct traffic at the intersection. Or meeting an elderly neighbor for the first time when we stop to deliver some water. One woman who had lived in Manhattan for 40 years saw the Big Dipper for the first time. You could see Mars hanging over midtown. Outside a Tribeca bar, a patrol car cruising by turned on the bullhorn: "Attention! Make sure you drink your beer before it gets warm...
Gelbart usually rises early and heads straight for his keyboard. But every Tuesday afternoon at 2, he has a standing date with his grandson Adam, 6. Occasionally he will meet a friend for lunch--usually at a sushi bar where, he says, "a waiter can't come up and spoil a punch line"--but concedes, "I don't have much of a social life. As you get older, God takes away your peers and gives you playmates...