Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Permissiveness" is the standard explanation, meaning that we have become a slack-willed race, slaves to every passing genital urging. Why else would a man take up with a gorgeous blond cocktail waitress, forgetting that, for all practical purposes, he already had one at home? Permissiveness, according to the theory, makes us contemptuous of such "traditional values" as loyalty, self-sacrifice and the old till-death-do-us-part type of marriage...
...talent for winsome characterization. Taylor's plucky mother leaves an uncommunicative new husband so devoted to silence that he sprays WD-40 on anything that squeaks. ( Taylor's boyfriend, Jax Thibodeaux, got his first name from his mother's favorite brand of New Orleans beer. Barbie, a waitress-entertainer, blithely forges $20 bills on a copy machine. Even the formidable Ms. Fourkiller has a high sweetheart quotient...
...question, Heart and Souls is a cry movie in every stitch of its elaborate plot. In 1959 four strangers -- a working mother (Alfre Woodard), a petty thief (Tom Sizemore), a waitress in love (Kyra Sedgwick) and a timid opera singer (Charles Grodin) -- board a San Francisco bus and die when the driver swerves to avoid a car. In that car, at that moment, a woman gives birth to a boy, Thomas; and in his body the spirits of the four dead passengers are trapped. Today the ghosts have learned that Thomas (Robert Downey Jr.) can perform one act for each...
...cafe a few miles away, the waitress looks haggard. "It started at 5:30 this morning," she says. "Groups of eight to 12, 14 at one time. And they're talking they want more real estate . . . and we don't want 'em buying more...
...kept. The 1,607-ft. slopes are routinely groomed to take out moguls and ice spots that might send skiers crashing into the wall. Every night workers lay down a fine layer of fresh powder. "The quality of the snow is incredibly good here," says Mihoko Ehara, 24, a waitress. "But because it is so good, I think that if you skied here too often you might lose touch." Still, unlike Seagaia, SSAWS really has little to offer apart from snow. The skiing is fine for the first few runs -- and is especially surreal in summer -- but the lack...