Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Days Inn diner in Hattiesburg, Miss., goes WorldCom lore, Ebbers and some partners scratched out on a napkin a plan for a phone company that would resell WATS long-distance service to local businesses. The name for the company--Long Distance Discount Services--supposedly came from a helpful waitress. "The only experience Bernie had operating a long-distance carrier was that he used the phone," recalls an investor in the original enterprise, which changed its name to WorldCom...
...another until only the strongest (or the top billed) survives. It also honors the familiar tropes of hombre films, from the requisite convenience-store holdup and multiple murder to a strident Ennio Morricone score (with the banshee harmonica from his Sergio Leone westerns). There's also a waitress named Flo. Stone swathes all this menace in his patented white-hot style: slo-mo, echoing voices, flashbacks that flick like lightning, cartoon sound effects (when the Mustang is mentioned, you'll hear a horse whinny). A streetwise Indian (Jon Voight) tells Bobby, "Your lies are old, but you tell 'em pretty...
...Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America (Knopf; $30), reaches similar conclusions. Shipler embarks on a sprawling, impressive tour along the "crucial fault line of America," crafting an absorbing theater piece of characters, from undergraduates at Princeton to probation officers in South Central Los Angeles. In one scene, a white waitress in Alabama jabs at a former school principal, a black man, for having suspended her 20 years earlier. The banter is lighthearted, but Shipler perceives more. "How galling...to feel helpless before a black man in authority," he writes. "How vividly the echoes of resentment reverberate into the present...
...candidate emerged for the title of Autumn's father. He is a former busboy named Jesus Vasquez, whom Upshaw apparently married in 1973, a year before Autumn's birth--a marriage arranged, according to former friends, to help the Mexican immigrant gain U.S. citizenship. Joan Green, who was a waitress at the Los Angeles restaurant where Upshaw's mother and Vasquez worked, says everyone there assumed Vasquez was the girl's father. "The shape of her eyes and her eyebrows are Jesus," Green says. "And if you look at her baby pictures, Autumn had pin-straight hair." Upshaw, through...
...Jade Goober, Web Hubbell has just finished his lunch with an all-vegetable dish listed on the menu as Bubba's Delight. Trie, following standing instructions, has given him the check plus three carbon copies suitable for submission. At the next table, a waitress impatiently taps a pencil on her pad as James McDougal changes his mind again and again...