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...Queen Mary is berthed in the harbor at Long Beach, a tourist attraction. She has a restaurant astern called Sir Winston's. The menu is in French. Under dessert you find "tuile aux fraises, "with no English translation. You summon a waiter, whose name is Juan. "French taco," Juan explains, "with strawberries...
...biggest game in town. What in most places would be a simple process--"A gin and tonics, please"--in Harvard Square requires a verbal pas de deux with the bartender and waiter. Ordering drinks or even entering a drinking establishment in the Square if you're under 20 makes one about as popular as Caspar Weinberger at Harvard. Though it varies from bar to bar, a teenager acquiring a drink without two birth certificates and his dad's passport needs a top-notch bullshitting ability to reach his desired goal. Bars have been especially tough recently after the alcohol commission...
...have confidence in yourself," said Hotel Manager Peter Sun, who was born in Hong Kong and trained at Cornell in his pep talk. His staff masked whatever opening-night jitters they had. "I am feeling very proud to serve President Reagan and Premier Zhao," said Waiter Liu Zhihong, 21, who was chosen to serve the President's table. "I am only a little nervous There was no cause to worry. The Chinese cleaned every plate of their Thanksgiving dinner...
Their arrival in Los Angeles marks a temporary triumph of optimism; Enrique becomes a waiter in a posh restaurant; Rosa finds work first in a garment factory (where she sees models "Just like in a magazine!") and then as housemaid to an amusingly prim matron who unsuccessfully tries to teach her how to operate a computerized washer-dryer...
...Like most "successful" show dancers, he is in and out of work: he appeared in a 1981 international tour of West Side Story and with Sandy Duncan in last year's Five-Six-Seven-Eight . . . Dance! at Radio City Music Hall, but at the moment he is a waiter and disc jockey at catered parties. "I choreograph a video here, I dance in an industrial film there. But this is not steady employment...