Word: waitering
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...waiter tells Andre that a jeune fille at another table has a message for him. "There's a young Chinese lady that saw us somewhere and wants to say hello to me," Andre tells Raquel. "I'll go over and see her or she'll come here...
...came to Harvard before or during the war and completed their degrees after the peace-often cite one fact to explain the change they saw. Before, in the old Harvard, one sat down to dinner, printed menu in hand, and waited for the attentions of a water a waiter. After, in the new College, lines formed in front of steam tables, where dinner was dished out service-style. "Fish or cut bait," a dean told Anton Myrer '47 upon his return. "We've got no time for that prewar folderol 'Fish or cut bait'. There were double-decker banks...
...bronze chandeliers. Below, fresh flowers, crisp linen, the gleam of silver and crystal. Doris Banchet, the German-born wife of the chef, appears by the entrance in a chic black dress adorned with a golden rooster brooch, "the sign of good cuisine," she explains. Now it is the waiters, formal in their tuxedos, who take over, announcing the program and pacing the elaborate performance. The first guests arrive: James and Judy Horn, a pair of young Chicago attorneys. They are celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary. George, a jolly pink-cheeked waiter whose wife has stitched his name in yarn across...
...Floating Lightbulb is the story of the Pollacks, a struggling family on the outskirts of everything in 1945 Brooklyn. Max is a small-time numbers runner and waiter supporting a mistress he can't afford, in debt to the loansharks and waiting for his number to come in. Enid is supporting the family by some unspecified means and worrying about her philandering husband and her drop-out kid. Steve, an incipient delinquent, steals his father's pocket change to gamble with the boys, plays hookey and perhaps commits arson. Steve will end up like his father, on the edge...
...entire audience becomes part of this set. They are seated at a table, given a bottle of wine, and after everyone has settled down the waiter starts humming and singing. This focus centers more and more on the one remaining empty table, which turns out to be the set. Thus begins the first of the three farces, Alphonse' Allais's "The Poor Beggar and the Fairy Godmother." Christopher Randolph, as the waiter, enchants the audience with his nonchalant egoism and warbles his strong voice as he sings both on and off the stage. This first farce consists of the waiter...