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...trying to breathe life back into today. The testimony of these men and women is both invaluable and unique--a mountain of statistics and doctoral theses has no more legitimacy and is often far less enlightening than a single Dorothea Lange photograph of an Appalachian mother or a waitress musing into Studs Terkel's tape recorder about the joys of serving tables...
...MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, also made by a Swiss, Alain Tanner (The Salamander), is as coolly intelligent and as subtle as La Paloma is giddy. The film concerns the intense affair between an engineer running for local political office (Philippe Leotard) and a waitress (Olimpia Carlisi). Their joyous mutual carnality nearly convinces them both that they were made for each other. The engineer still believes it, in fact, when the waitress leaves him. This film is wise in the ways and reasons people deceive themselves, rich in its exploration of the blindness that fervor can bring...
...That Eisenhower Center's sure made a difference," a waitress told me. "Seems like all our customers are going there...
Despite the commercialism, the "atmosphere" at the Wursthaus is very warm if masculine. The main dining room is a handsome exercise in dark old wood and stone flooring, and an occasional Germanic waitress gives the place some authenticity. The upstairs is somewhat more cheery and airy, and there's sometimes a guitar player in the corner. The Wursthaus gets quite crowded and service gets quite slow, but it's a fine place to go for a filling meal with drinks, late in the afternoon or evening...
...soup arrives lukewarm, dessert does not arrive at all, and the bill bears little relation to what was ordered. Even so, the restaurant patron is likely to add 15% to the check for the waiter or waitress, then go home grumbling about the injustices of tipping. For the dissatisfied diner who is too timid to complain aloud, there is a palatable remedy: a union of restaurant victims called Tippers International...