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...includes references that poke fun at the outrageousness of HPT costumes, which tend to be designed according to stereotypes. Indeed, at one point in the show, Gay Caballero tells his partner-in-crime, an Asian railroad maven named Ho Down, that she looks “like a cocktail waitress for the Viet Cong.” She responds equally critically, commenting that he looks “like a rainbow collapsed on a naked man.” Set designs, too, are numerous and help to set a realistic stage—though, as a part of the backdrop...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTS TUESDAY: Classic Pudding Kitsch Still Reigns | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

...station from the east: "I'll give it to you straight. A creeping coup is taking place. We must do everything possible to prevent this coup from happening." After Parliament called for a fresh vote, many felt that the coup had succeeded. "This is banditry," said Irina, 39, a waitress in a Kiev caf. "I voted for Yanukovych. He was legally elected. They should have let him start working. I'm scared to think what will become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Orange Revolution | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...TRICKED By Alex Robinson From the cartoonist of Box Office Poison, comes a tale of six people -- a reclusive rock legend, a heartbroken waitress, a counterfeiter, an obsessive crank, a lost daughter and a backstabbing lover -- whose lives spiral in upon each other. (Summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telescoping | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

...overhaul of the Social Security system--in theory welcoming millions of the working class into the investing class--might aid G.O.P. mastermind Karl Rove's plan to fashion a permanent Republican majority. "What does it mean when every truck driver and waitress becomes a stockholder?" asks Michael Tanner, an economist at the Cato Institute and one of the architects of the private-account movement. "You can create inheritable wealth for low-income people and minorities. If you turn those truck drivers and waitresses into stockholders, they vote and behave very differently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking The Plunge | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...Taylor and directed by Payne, is in no way ordinary. Since Miles and Jack moor in the Santa Ynez Valley to sample the local vintages, it's a sedentary road movie. Instead of the usual cantina of eccentrics, just two significant characters cross their path: Maya (Virginia Madsen), a waitress, and Stephanie (Sandra Oh), a wine pourer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Sweet Sip of a Dark Vintage | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

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