Word: waitressing
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...neighborhood bar, the buxom waitress first tried Russian, then German on the foreign visitor. "American? Don't talk politics with my customers. They're too drunk to know what they're saying, and there's an F.DJ. [Free German Youth] in the corner...
...team demonstrated from the start a built-in capacity for missing the point. Accompanied to Moscow by Conniff and Hearstling Joseph Kingsbury Smith (now publisher of Hearst's New York Journal-American), Bill Hearst suspiciously searched his rooms for hidden mikes, bucked the usual language difficulties (the waitress brought sheep's eyes when they ordered ice)-and managed to miss a scoop on the biggest story in town...
...terms that John Ruskin might have used to describe Venice at the sight of margarine oozing down a stack of pancakes in a Blue Bonnet ad. And when Mike Nichols and Elaine May did their spiel for a Jax beer cartoon, involving a surrealistic flirtation between a female waitress and a male kangaroo ("How do I know you're not a kangaroo dressed up in a girl suit?"), voices in the audience had a cathedral hush: "This is real entertainment...
...subjects for its weekly, treacly "true-to-life" biographies. During the Mother's Day season last May, the program presented a portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Hahn a Queens housewife and mother, devoted to her husband and so dedicated to her children that she had worked as a chambermaid, waitress and cook to further their education and keep them off the streets...
UNHERALDED and often unrecognized, Johnson swoops down on his installations, taste-tests meals, listens to customers' chatter. If he finds a dirty rest room, an undersized portion or a lippy waitress, he may call up an executive in the middle of the night to dress him down. Johnson also occasionally samples Manhattan nightclubs with his fourth wife, but has sold his 60-ft. yacht, no longer collects paintings. "My hobby," he says, "is to talk and eat food." His favorite food is ice cream, which he stoutly (205 Ibs.) maintains "is not fattening." He eats at least a cone...