Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chose the cheapest item on the list, a perro caliente (Spanish for "hot dog"), which went for seven pesos. Up in the Indian Quarter seven pesos would have bought me soup, a piece of chicken, rice, and chuna, a type of dried potato. In a few minutes the waitress, dressed in a tight yellow uniform, placed a five-inch long, grease-bathed hot dog in front of me. I didn't even get a roll...
...summer she takes a job as a waitress in the Purple Pickle, part of a psuedo-delicatessan chain in the midwest. It is a low-priced quick-service place lit by art deco lamps, with oaken booths against rough panelled walls, plants slung from the ceiling and sauerkraut served while-u-wait. She is working eight hours a day in a starched white uniform and a red-checkered apron, and she lives above the restaurant with the manager. He is 45 and divorced, a Methodist believer who neither drinks or smokes. He is balding with a budding paunch, he likes...
...action sequences are frequent but arthritic. Colleen Dewhurst - whom one hardly expects to find in such company-provides an agreeable cameo as a roundheeled cocktail waitress with a taste for cocaine. The Duke remains amiable and unruffled throughout, but it is a bit troubling to see him poaching so obviously on Clint Eastwood's loner-cop territory...
...drunks who wander in at three in the morning or by roaring up the mountain in his old pick-up, defying the curves, playing with death. He even loses the diner (his last touchstone) to a new helper. Henry is good, almost too good, so when his teen-age waitress, Callie, gets pregnant, he marries...
...struggling insurance company clerk, C.C. "Chuck" Baxter. Baxter wins his way to happiness and a key to the executive washroom by loaning out his $86.50 a month apartment to libidinous vice presidents and their ambitious secretaries. In the process, Baxter manages to fall in love with the very cafeteria waitress who is involved with the almighty Director of Personnel. Aha! Complication! Misunderstanding! Humor! Agony! Unfortunately, we don't get all that...