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Word: waitresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every such success story, groupie life has presented scores of tragedies-made worse by the preoccupation with sex and dope that is integral to rock culture. Typical enough is the bitter story of a Manhattan waitress: "I'm 33, and I've made it with all the early biggies, and more. You know what I've got to show for it? Three kids from three different guys-which three, I'm not sure. I've gone the dope route, been busted twice, and taken the cure at Lexington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners And Morals: The Groupies | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...biggest and most theatrical of all the Leaf works is Street Dreams: The Ascension of the Pig Lady, a grouping of nine characters set in a shallow stage framed by a proscenium arch. Cast as a waitress with porcine pink cheeks and a snoutlike nose, the pig lady is about to be plucked up to heaven by a man and woman sprawling across the top of the arch. Explains Miss Leaf: "If there was going to be another Messiah, it would appear in someone who would never expect it, like a waitress, and she would turn into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Carnival of Grotesques | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...favors to both young and old in the neighborhood, for the vast improvements that he has brought to the area during his regime, for the fact that he is a "real gen'leman" (with the dropped "t" of the local patois). At Don's Lunch the manager-waitress whose books Vellucci carried to the local Thorndike School when both were students there can only say, "He is our boy, a real prince, oh I lose my head when I start talking about him--he's so wonderful--and can't say anything...

Author: By George Hall, | Title: Al Vellucci: The Politics of Disguise | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...finished my greasy coffee there, Ted strolled by. Ted was usually pretty circumspect in his anti-redneck sabotage, but at the Silver Moon he lost all self-control for a minute. Looking through the grimy window, he saw a row of thick-bodied workers, laughing with the surly waitress. On the window, forming a kind of frame for the people, were Wallace and More Power for Police stickers. All in all, it made a perfect picture. So Ted took it, and stepped off quickly...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...want to, especially with television because it's such a crappy medium. So I did a review of a Nancy Sinatra television special and I said no matter how much of her father's money she spends on herself she still looks like a pizza waitress. Well, Nancy Sinatra has a lot of friends out here. I've gotten some nasty phone calls and a few letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: REX REED: THE HAZEL-EYED HATCHET MAN | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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