Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killing of Damaris "Synge" Gillispie. A 22-year-old senior honors student at Boston University, Gillispie lived in a Cambridge apartment not far from Sandra Ehramjian's. She was last seen on November 29 when she left her apartment to go to her job as a cocktail waitress at the Boston nightclub The Jazz Workshop. Police believe she hitchhiked to get there. She never made...
SOON after her illegitimate son was born two years ago, "Jane Roe," a divorced Dallas bar waitress, put him up for adoption. At almost the same time, "Mary Doe," an Atlanta housewife, bore a child who was also promptly adopted. Both women had asked for abortions and, like thousands of others, they had been turned down. Unlike most of the others, though, Roe and Doe went to court to attack the state statutes that frustrated them. The resulting legal fights took too long for either woman to get any practical benefit. But last week they had the satisfaction of hearing...
...makes having a family look like intellectual suicide. One searches throughout for a bit of humanity, a moment of emotional challenge, and finds only one, in the performance of Lois Smith. Hers is one of those rare talents that makes practically every role she has done memorable: the waitress in East of Eden, for example, or Jack Nicholson's sister in Five Easy Pieces. Here she plays (excellently) a testy working woman, and she is on screen for perhaps two minutes. Thus Up the Sandbox is guilty not only of trivializing a major subject but also of wasting...
Attention, Diners. Tomlin's first acting experience was in a production of The Madwoman of Chaillot at Wayne State University. After two years of college, she headed for a show business career in New York, where one of her first acts was as a waitress at a Broadway Howard Johnson's. "Attention, diners," she announced over the loudspeaker one evening. "Your Howard Johnson's waitress of the week, Miss Lily Tomlin, is about to make her appearance on the floor. Let's all give her a big hand!" Tomlin's peculiar brand of humor...
Ostensibly, Torrents of Spring tells about the dramatic effects of the vernal equinox on the backwater town of Petrosky, Mich. Anderson's lapidary dialogue, his reverence for the little town, the railroad tracks, the "beanery" with its elderly waitress, even his anxious asides to the reader, are lampooned: "Spring was coming. Spring was in the air. (Author's note: This is the same day on which the story starts, back on page three...