Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...direct result of the former East bloc's economic distress: in Russia alone, 75% of the unemployed are female. "The naivete is unbelievable," says Prague vice-squad chief Petr Vosolsobe. "The vision of earning hard currency blurs the girls' senses." Besides the usual promises of dance- and waitress-jobs, myriad ruses are used. One Russian student of German literature received an invitation to complete her education. She sold her stereo to pay for gifts for her "host family" in Germany, only to arrive and be forced into a brothel. Others are lured by traffickers posing as marriage brokers...
Jessica Thomas, a waitress at Grendel's Den, says the restaurant receives many customer complaints...
...Dutch Vanishing: curiosity killed the cat. It's a provocative premise, but it wants some legerdemain and a third act. Enter screenwriter Todd Graff (Used People). He takes the original's perplexing flashback structure, flattens it out and fattens it up, mostly by creating a new character, a waitress (Nancy Travis) who falls in love with Jeff. Graff changes the theme: now knowledge is just a cue for righteous revenge. The Dutch movie had no gun; in a Hollywood thriller there must be a gun, and it will go off. The original's ending was misanthropic, claustrophobic -- a fellow...
...addition, a drug raid at the bar in 1991resulted in the arrest of a bartender whopossessed cocaine. Police last raided the bar inJune, after an officer managed to purchase cocainefrom waitress...
...owners of Grendel's Bar already have theirown policing operation in place, according tococktail waitress and bartender Isadora, who hasworked there for two years. Hired by the owners,the "spotters" are sent into the bars to check thereliability of employees...