Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year--drop her in insular worlds where her beauty and quiet sexuality generate more rattle than hum. Yet Tyler also projects a work-in-progress quality, an appropriately teenage openness. Mangold says he knew as soon as he met Tyler that she would make an ideal Callie, the kindly waitress who intoxicates an overweight loner (Pruitt Taylor Vince) with whom she works in a grim, paneled pizzeria. "I needed someone to fill several bills," he explains. "She had to be devastatingly beautiful but she had to contradict our assumptions about someone who looks like that. I could really...
...fraternity. His frat brothers liked him so much that they defied the whites-only charter to pledge him. As a newly commissioned Army second lieutenant en route to a post in Virginia, he was so naive about what it could mean to be black in America that when a waitress at a segregated Newport News, Virginia, drive-in refused to serve him and his wife, he recalled later, "I thought maybe there was something wrong with the car door." When it dawned on him that he had been rejected because of his race, Brown drove off, apparently without making...
After waiting half an hour without receiving any food, not even our appetizers, we politely inquired of our waitress as to when we might expect our food. She informed us that this was her first evening of work, and that the cooks in the kitchen were using favoritism in dispensing dishes, giving all of the orders to the waiters and waitresses who had been working in the restaurant for a long time. This did not strike us as a very professional way to run a kitchen, but our waitress seemed to be trying very hard, so we decided...
...lengths to attack him. An aide to a rival campaign leaked word that Forbes' 151-ft.-long yacht, the Highlander, features among its art collection a photograph by the late homosexual artist Robert Mapplethorpe. (Well, yes, but it's a seascape.) Another operative in the same campaign found a waitress in New Hampshire who claims that Forbes left a miserly $2 tip on a $45 lunch bill; others in the party added $6. If these tactics are an indication of the weeks to come, the race is likely to be brutish as well as short...
Before coming to Harvard Dining Services as a checker in Sept. 1991, Kelley worked as a nurse for 20 years and also as a waitress...