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Word: waitress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think about the leaps and bounds the human race would have made if every man sitting in Hooters or someplace worse looked at the waitress and thought about how he would feel if his daughter or wife was employed there. Instead of making the personal political, as 60s feminists fought to do, Raye is taking the inverse step: making the political personal...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: A Cowboy's Kind of Girl | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

...waitress at Jae's says she thought their sign had gone up first; it went up when the restaurant first opened, around five years...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

...from Adrian, Mich., who is battling the FCC in federal court for the right to air right-winger Bo Gritz and rail against income tax; two guys from Radio Free Bakersfield who play the homegrown punk-rock bands the commercial stations ignore; and a 19-year-old Milwaukee, Wis., waitress with pink-and-purple hair who reads from Winnie-the-Pooh on her Radio Free Bob children's hour. "There's no difference between microradio and the printing presses of the Founding Fathers that were outlawed by the British government," says "Brad," 27, a bike messenger who reads his poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio Free America | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...arrived at the hotel at the end of the world in the middle of a rainstorm, a waitress was positioning a gleaming silver ice bucket to catch the drops from a leaky roof. I knew this place had class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subarctic Oasis | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience feel as if it's earned a pleasant after-glow (and perhaps a Kleenex or two). --Erwin R. Rosinberg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

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