Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uniformed waitress appeared, flashing a $2 minimum card, and called for our orders. Two beers...
School of Experience. In Denver, Waitress Evelyn Marshall, yielding to "a sudden impulse," dived out her fifth-floor window, buckled a tin ventilator shaft on the second floor, bounced off a car top into a parking lot, suffered only a broken tooth and a stomach ache. Soberly she told physicians: "This has taught me a lesson. I'll never jump through the window again...
...power of Greene's book lay chiefly in his detailed character study of Pinkie, a 17-year-old hoodlum personifying pure evil, and in the religious conflict within the simple waitress who loved him. Except for a single refinement of the book's final irony, the movie treats its characters wholly on the surface. The result looks enough like a second-rate U.S. crime melodrama to make the new title seem an accurate label. Brighton Rock loses its soul when young Scarface becomes just another descendant of Chicago's Scarface...
...this terrible story presents a comparison with the state of the world today. The boy represents the despair and disillusionment so many feel in these times; the rabble below are the hell-bent millions who care for nothing but themselves and their pleasure; and the waitress and priest, and others who tried to save him, represent the feeble yet victorious forces of Christian principles...
...Jump!" yelled the crowd. But one among them, a 21-year-old waitress named Mrs. Marilyne Giannattasio, began pushing fiercely toward the hotel. As she came into the lobby the bellhops turned to watch her. "Stacked," was their word for Marilyne. Her dark hair flowed to her shoulders, her lipstick was a defiant red, her earrings jangled. Marilyne did not notice them; after one horrified look she had been moved by a sudden, pitying compulsion to save the figure on the ledge...