Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Vicky smiles to signal she's joking. But she's dead serious when she explains, over coffee at Starbucks, her lack of interest in politics. "It's because our life is pretty good. I care about my rights when it comes to the quality of a waitress in a restaurant or a product I buy. When it comes to democracy and all that, well ..." She shrugs expressively and takes a sip of her latte. "That doesn't play a role in my life...
...waitress came rushing out of the diner in Manchester, N.H., with a guest book for Joe Biden to sign and stayed to tell a story. Her name was Michelle Griffin, and she had just returned to work after being ill for two years. Her husband was working two jobs. They were putting two daughters through college. They had no health insurance. "There were times when I thought we wouldn't make it ..." she said, and tears filled her eyes. Biden put his hands on her shoulders, and his forehead on hers-an awkward but touching gesture-and she shuddered into...
What is the most memorable concert you've ever attended?-Barbara Bernacchi, CHICAGOBack in 1976 I was, I think, in Chicago, and Bob Marley was touring then, and I didn't know who he was. I was working a little club, and a waitress told me, "You gotta see this guy." I went, and it probably changed my musical life ever since...
Finishing up the last of the lunch crowd, waitress Helen T. Metros takes a break in one of the restaurant’s signature red and black booths. Metros, who has worked in Harvard Square for 54 years, vividly recalls its 1950s intimacy...
...being thrown against the Pirates of the Caribbean juggernaut next weekend, which probably is a result of a lot of people going "yetch" when they saw it. I understand that response. Who wants to see a movie shot almost entirely in a wretched motel room, in which a downtrodden waitress (Ashley Judd, in a stunning performance) first fends off her sadistic former husband, newly paroled from jail, then takes up with an apparently agreeable drifter (Michael Shannon) who is well, er, a little more loony than he at first appears...