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Attention, Diners. Tomlin's first acting experience was in a production of The Madwoman of Chaillot at Wayne State University. After two years of college, she headed for a show business career in New York, where one of her first acts was as a waitress at a Broadway Howard Johnson's. "Attention, diners," she announced over the loudspeaker one evening. "Your Howard Johnson's waitress of the week, Miss Lily Tomlin, is about to make her appearance on the floor. Let's all give her a big hand!" Tomlin's peculiar brand of humor...
Ostensibly, Torrents of Spring tells about the dramatic effects of the vernal equinox on the backwater town of Petrosky, Mich. Anderson's lapidary dialogue, his reverence for the little town, the railroad tracks, the "beanery" with its elderly waitress, even his anxious asides to the reader, are lampooned: "Spring was coming. Spring was in the air. (Author's note: This is the same day on which the story starts, back on page three...
...made to endure every cloying moment of it in The Public Eye. He (Michael Jayston) is a highly paid English tax accountant; she (Mia Farrow), a slightly wilted California flower child marooned in London en route home from Katmandu. They first meet in a restaurant, where she is a waitress, when she accidentally spills chicken with caramel sauce all over his proper blue suit. She is breezily apologetic. He is unaccountably enchanted...
...negotiations weren't getting any of us anywhere," Patricia Welch, a waitress employed by Cronin and one of the founders of HSWOC, said. She said that after ten meetings, Cronin had agreed to sign only one minor detail of the 24-article contract proposed by the union. "Mr. Cronin never drew up a list of counter proposals as he had promised to do," she added...
...Erdmann, a striking waitress, said the only reason given by Cronin for the dismissal was that the waitresses were guilty of "conduct while on duty which is prejudicial to Cronin's Restaurant, Inc." However, the waitresses contended that Cronin had fired them as a result of their participation in the strike...