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...Chicago, the Second City revue has a brand-new skit about a newlywed couple honeymooning at the Watergate. "What would you like for lunch?" the bridegroom asks. "A ham sandwich," replies the bride. Instantly a waitress bursts into the room with the ham sandwich. "If you want anything else," she says cheerfully to the dumbfounded couple, "just talk loud...
...connotations, leaving an oversimplified story of eight innocents in search of an answer. John the Baptist pulls a flower bedecked cart over the Brooklyn Bridge one morning. He appears to the city's hungry souls in need of salvation. Their troubles are varied: one has spilled coffee on her waitress's uniform. Another is stuck in a traffic jam and a third is unfairly forced to wait in line to use a Xerox machine. He summons them to the Central Park fountain where, in the midst of absolution, Christ appears. "I wanna get washed up," says one disciple with hope...
...best is Sam Golden's saloon sequence. Golden, black-shirted and white-tied, delivers a classic big band blues arrangement of a my-baby-done-me-wrong torcher, and does it in phonetic English as the camera roams over the crowd, Vegas in the South of France, eagerly fondling waitress Camille, while her lout husband seethes. From there, Truffaut films a short Western sequence. It's as if his characters had been dropped onto a John Ford backlot and allowed to pursue each other at random. These scenes are regularly scheduled...
...area is enough to deter many. Siberia boosters used to claim that the population would climb from its present 25 million to about 60 million by the year 2000; the current rate of growth is unlikely to produce more than about half that number. All Siberian workers, from a waitress in Yakutsk to a drilling engineer at Nadym, get "northern bonuses" that double and triple Moscow wage rates, but the labor turnover is nonetheless high. Every year 17,000 new workers arrive in the Irkutsk region, and 10,000 others leave. Some of these are students who are sent...
Hungry Charley's restaurant this week announced a ten-cent price increase for all items and the addition of waitress service in hopes of brightening its gloomy financial situation...