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...program worked. I ran it with a sense of pride, and, with the help of Harvard's computer system, was pleased to discover that if each waiter received $1 that night and wanted to split the total evenly, then each waiter would receive...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: The QRR: A Harvard Rite of Passage | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

...question. With a chemical allergy to alcohol, the tiniest bit of champagne completely uninhibits prim Kim and turns her into nasty Nadia. She undoes the floral arrangement, curses at the waiter in French, trips the pockets off all the men's jackets ("It's the new style," she exclaims), and convinces the Japanese client's obsequious Geisha Doll of a wife to leave him and claim the 50% of the property she's entitled to by California law. Walter is not pleased...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Date Misbehavin' | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

Remarkably, Eisenstaedt is only now receiving his first retrospective, "Eisie at 88," an engrossing exhibit of 125 photographs at Manhattan's International Center of Photography. The show brings back the prewar pictures that provided the world with its first evidence of his acute and mostly cheerful eye: an imperturbable waiter on ice skates, Marlene Dietrich in a top hat, but also the vulpine stare of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. It proceeds into the years when Eisenstaedt became a legend on the staff of LIFE, where he served from the first issue, contributing thousands of pictures and 92 covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Must Remember This | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...offer of about $900 was made for one of thepaintings still missing," said Rhinelander. "I'dlove to have it back so I could sell it," shesaid. Rhinelander and Johnson work as ahousekeeper and waiter, respectively, to supporttheir painting careers...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Anonoymous Caller Returns Artwork; Three Murals Still Lost, Artists Say | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...necessary to be a board chairman to spiff up in a tux, however. "The tuxedo is a great equalizer," suggests Chicago Fund Raiser Sugar Rautbord. "It's hard to distinguish between the head waiter and a CEO." Bill Blass, whose traditional tux designs for After Six are among the industry's best sellers, brings the whole matter down to earth and into perspective: "Ultimately, it all stems back to women. It's the gal who wants to dress up, and the fellow has to go along." That's one reason Blass has been a success for so long; he knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Tie Still Required | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

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