Word: waiters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This poignant material is told obliquely and often with a fey nuttiness. The audience begins to understand that it has stepped outside the literal world when the most neurotically self-absorbed of the women confides to one of her companions that the waiter hates her, and a few moments later, he does indeed turn and say, deadpan, "I hate you." At South Coast Repertory's handsome stage, the show had a visual sleekness that it somewhat lacks in the more rudimentary facilities of the New York City producer, Playwrights Horizons. But the elegance of the storytelling survives and reflects more...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...