Word: waiters
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...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...
...Zeebob's is the kind of place where you're not surprised if the waiter sits down at your table. Raymond, a tall, impressively hirsute young guy, brought out the drinks, and waited a full 10 seconds before inviting himself to join me. He wanted to teach me some Goan dialect. "You must know susegado," he said. "Maybe it's the reason you came to Goa." Susegado sounds like a Portuguese word but it isn't in the dictionary. Seeing Raymond's easygoing smile, I was able to guess the meaning: chilled out. After another round, Raymond promised to take...
Washington's fury over Iran's supposed al-Qaeda connection, as well as its alleged nuclear ambitions, has many Iranians wondering, After Iraq, are we next? At a Tehran restaurant, a waiter made sure nobody was listening and then asked, with both fear and hope, "Are the Americans going to help rid us of the mullahs?" Advisers to Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei say he is genuinely worried about a possible U.S. attack. As a result, they say, he has ordered his fellow ayatullahs to refrain from using their influence with Iraqi Shi'ites to whip up unrest against...