Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gallery of types but come across as individuals. Among them, the restaurant owner, Memphis (Al White), is a former Mississippian who was cheated of his property and driven from his farmstead for the crime of succeeding where a white man had failed. Risa (Cynthia Martells), the restaurant's sole waitress, gets her hope from religion and prophecy. Wolf (Anthony Chisholm) is a petty criminal, a numbers runner for the white Mob who gets along by going along. Sterling (Larry Fishburne, star of the movie Boyz N the Hood) is a rambunctious no-hoper, fresh out of prison and fated...
Strange, then, that a waitress in such a post-cultural institution would so unsubtly point out the regional contrasts between us and herself. But the ideal of the South remains strong enough to force its way under the red roof of a Pizza...
...what are y'all doing here in Russellville, Alabama?" the waitress, whose name didn't catch, asked us. She was our age, maybe a few years older. She spoke pleasantly enough...
...considered one possibility: envy. After all, a 22-year-old waitress in a Pizza Hut probably wasn't leaving Russellville at any point in the foreseeable future. As we described our trip, her eyes betrayed a near-fascination with our small adventure...
...were: until that moment we hadn't realized that we were. The waitress had asked a harsh question, and no one responded. She smiled broadly and left with a quick, friendly goodbye. "God, are we that transparent?" John asked...