Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study of users showed that 10% of those who tried the machine and were above the limit decided not to chance driving. But most bar owners and customers consider the machine a gag item, and some even compete for the highest score. In one Des Moines cocktail lounge, a waitress tells of two regulars who tied for the record. "You're supposed to be dead if you get the thing up to .50," says she, "but these guys both scored .49 and they didn't even look...
Such details could be overlooked if the acting weren't so uneven. Regina, the daughter, is written as the center of energy in the children's conflict; but Robin Lane, complete with Barbie Doll face and cocktail waitress hairstyle, gives an annoyingly superficial performance. Her flirtatious manner, exaggerated gestures, even he phrasing, are all much too predictable: she extrapolates the obvious from each line, rather than offering any emotional integrity or depth of characterization...
...embarrassed-often by the clothes and manners of Sunday-best services. Recalls an Oregon housewife: "I kind of felt put down." Some blacks sense white prejudice. And then there are those whose lives became linked with unacceptable behavior: a woman lately married to a drunkard, a homosexual, a topless waitress in a Florida...
...flooded with 5 ft. of water in 14 minutes, the bartender escaped the onrushing tide by ducking behind his bar. As he ran for the street, the glass wall behind the bar collapsed. By the time he found his wife at the nearby restaurant where she worked as a waitress, their new car was gone-washed away into the creek...
...July a California Court of Appeal unanimously overturned the conviction of a 32-year-old Los Angeles salesman in the rape of a 23-year-old waitress-hitchhiker. To help explain the decision, Justice Lynn Compton wrote that a woman who enters a stranger's car "advertises that she has less concern for the consequences than the average female." In response, Attorney Gloria Allred, a National Organization for Women coordinator, claimed the judge was ignoring "the fact that rape is an act of violence, not of sex." University of Southern California Law Professor Stephen Morse called Compton...