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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Talk about self-destruction! Harry is simultaneously muscling in on a mean and powerful man's family and his business. He's also conducting an affair with Helen (Jessica Lange), a waitress in the bar where he (and half of low- life New York) spends far too much time. This is not too smart either, for she is married to its manager, Phil (Cliff Gorman) -- short-tempered, mean- minded and, like Boom Boom, a man not to be trifled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Songs of A Street Hustler | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

Corrine Terrell, Eliot's head waitress, said the initial decision was intended to reduce the amount of waste generated by the dining hall. She said the glasses and the John Harvard mugs given to students at the beginning of the semester would be more "environmentally friendly" than the paper cups...

Author: By Rajath Shourie, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eliot House Rethinks Paper Cup Removal | 10/21/1992 | See Source »

Karen G. Thomas, who had worked at the bar as a waitress for six years, echoed Boughner's account...

Author: By Margaret Isa, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Nightclub Employees Protest | 10/21/1992 | See Source »

Based on a novel by Richard Peck, it's about a single mom named Nora (Brooke Adams), living in a trailer park in a small New Mexico town, working as a waitress in a roadside restaurant, at once harried and patient (and wonderfully authentic) as she tries to raise two daughters. The younger of them, Shade (Fairuza Balk), narrates the story of a crucial few months in their lives. She has a busy, dreamy mind. She may moon over the romantic fictions shown at a little Hispanic theater and end up falling for the Latino boy who works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Values Get Real | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

They meet morose. Davis (Steve Martin) is an architect unappreciated by his firm and by a staid girlfriend (Dana Delany). He has built the latter a house in their hometown that suits his dreams but not hers. Gwen (Goldie Hawn) is a waitress of dubious but, as she tells it, colorful background. In the course of a one-night stand she learns of the house, standing as empty as her life, and decides to fill up both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lying For Laughs | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

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