Word: waitressing
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Studs Terkel is a squat, 61-year-old man who has spent the past three years interviewing Americans about their jobs. He began in Chicago, where he is the host of a daily radio program. There he interviewed an aging waitress, a receptionist, a barber. In Indiana, he talked with a strip miner. In Kentucky, a farmer. In Lordstown, Ohio, a union leader at the General Motors assembly plant...
...book author's obligatory plug-it and-run tour. Such promotional chores are part of his job, part of what he does all day now. But he would rather stay in Chicago, and he plans to cut the trip short, exercising a freedom of choice that the waitress, barber, and strip miner in his book (all pseudononymous characters) would probably envy...
...chose the cheapest item on the list, a perro caliente (Spanish for "hot dog"), which went for seven pesos. Up in the Indian Quarter seven pesos would have bought me soup, a piece of chicken, rice, and chuna, a type of dried potato. In a few minutes the waitress, dressed in a tight yellow uniform, placed a five-inch long, grease-bathed hot dog in front of me. I didn't even get a roll...
...summer she takes a job as a waitress in the Purple Pickle, part of a psuedo-delicatessan chain in the midwest. It is a low-priced quick-service place lit by art deco lamps, with oaken booths against rough panelled walls, plants slung from the ceiling and sauerkraut served while-u-wait. She is working eight hours a day in a starched white uniform and a red-checkered apron, and she lives above the restaurant with the manager. He is 45 and divorced, a Methodist believer who neither drinks or smokes. He is balding with a budding paunch, he likes...
...action sequences are frequent but arthritic. Colleen Dewhurst - whom one hardly expects to find in such company-provides an agreeable cameo as a roundheeled cocktail waitress with a taste for cocaine. The Duke remains amiable and unruffled throughout, but it is a bit troubling to see him poaching so obviously on Clint Eastwood's loner-cop territory...