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...afraid of losing our jobs," said a waitress who spoke on the condition that she not be named. "The protest would just be to let people know that they're taking our work away from...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Faculty Club Labor Negotiations Stalled | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

Garland Bunting has been on the circuit recently plugging the book for Wilkinson and he presents an absolutely intriguing figure. His speech is priceless, but the printed word can't do justice to the oral history qualities of his "talking trash," for example shocking a waitress by ordering...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Melts in the Hand, Not in the Mouth | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...attentive waitress presents the evening's menu on a small chalkboard, but the several choices don't appear to vary much from night to night...

Author: By M. Creosote, | Title: Inman Square Turns to Cajun Cooking | 9/27/1985 | See Source »

...also exotically furnished), the chances are excellent that you will shortly find yourself racing penniless through a rainstorm, trying to cope with a suicide attempt and a subway-fare increase, the consequences of a broken cash register at distracted John Heard's Terminal Bar and a cocktail waitress (Teri Garr) who is woeful in her work and sleeps in a bed surrounded by rattraps. But that is only the beginning of Paul's After Hours adventures. He has yet to escape a Mohawk haircut at the Cafe Berlin and taking the rap for a series of burglaries perpetrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mean Streets in Nighttown After Hours | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

More often, as Tyler adroitly stages events, Macon finds himself in a screwball farce. His leg fracture occurs when his cat gets stuck in a clothes dryer; his excited dog jumps on him, and he falls down the basement stairs while going to the rescue. A waitress insists that he check his crutches. Leaving the restaurant, he feels unexplainably crippled, "nearly doubled, his chin sunk low on his chest and his elbows jutting out awkwardly like the wings of a baby bird." It seems appropriate that he should look the way he feels, until an old woman points out that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocent with an Explanation the Accidental Tourist | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

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