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...appropriation of the world-particularly the bodies of women-with line. Sometimes his egotism goes out of control or his taste fails him, or both, as in an absurdly paranoid self-portrait that looks like Jack Nicholson fried on acid. But when confronted with the posed model, in The Waitress or his various nude studies, Kitaj draws better than almost anyone else alive, taking on all the expressive and factual responsibilities of depiction and carrying most of them through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Edgy Footnotes to an Era | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...some of the movie's most humorous moments, including a disgustingly (not sexually) funny scene in a butcher shop with Toni Kalem and an exquisite sequence of events with the striking Lauren Hutton. From the start, however, it is too obvious that Buddy will wind up with the trumpeting waitress Maggie, played by D'Angelo...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Having My Baby | 10/8/1981 | See Source »

...days in most of the casinos and think that the only water around was that coming out of the bathroom faucet. Those waves on the other side of the beach are clearly irrelevant to the casino owners, and they seem to be wishing for someone like Rosie, the waitress in the Bounty commercials, to come along with a giant paper towel and sop up the whole unsightly mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Atlantic City: The View from the Porch | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...cited the highrollers on charges that could have won each six months in the slammer and a $500 fine. The folks at Caesars Tahoe casino in Lake Tahoe, Nev., decided to lend the boys a hand. A bus stocked with food and drink and staffed by a cocktail waitress brought them to the Nevada casino, where they were handed a few bucks each to play their game-without interruption. The biggest winner came away with a pot of $5, but Lady Luck smiled on all seven that day: back in Contra Costa, the district attorney folded and dropped the charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Nickel-Dime Raid | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

They retreated to one of the buffet tables, but the waitress there told them to go to hell...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Chivalry | 8/4/1981 | See Source »

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