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...imperialism--the growing domination of Nicaragua by North American culture. English is becoming a kind of second language, necessary for medical students whose textbooks are in English, for the purchaser of a home appliance for which the operating instructions are in English, even for a shoeshine boy or a waitress who would coax a few extra centavos out of the gringo tourists. Some of this cultural influence is due a filtering down of the upper-class aping of everything North American: much of it, however, is pure necessity in a society shaped and dominated largely from without...
...wasteful experiences of our foremothers, like their plans and frustrations, are brushed under the proverbial rug or efficiently vacuumed away and dumped in the garbage. What does it matter that your lover's eccentric old grandmother was 1952's Waitress of the Year in Kalamazoo, or that Mom never told Dad that her reason for turning down that teaching fellowship at Berkeley was fear of threatening his "male ego." After all, these are the days of affirmative action...
MARIA MULDAUR: WAITRESS IN THE DONUT SHOP (Reprise). Muldaur reinvents torch singing and emerges as one of the '70s' most stylish pop singers...
...mirages hrough which she often moved with her parents-a former schoolteacher and an R.C.A.F. officer turned grocery-store manager. By the time they finally settled in Saskatoon, the rugged beauty of Saskatchewan had given Joan Anderson the inspiration to become an artist. With money earned as a waitress at a coffeehouse named after Folk Hero Louis Kiel, Joan bought pens and ink. She also taught herself the baritone ukulele. But her attentions soon turned to rock 'n' roll...
...your face in the wells In the granaries-torn I saw you a waitress in the night cafes I saw through the tears and wounds And you are the words on my lips You are the fire- And the water...