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...storyline follows Nick, a forger of famous autographs who plies his trade in a sports memorabilia shop. Not content with merely ripping off customers, he soon finds ways of stealing from his boss, who has ties to organized crime. Eventually Nick crosses paths with Caprice, who works as a waitress and struggles with a self-destructive streak that always seems to lead her to the wrong guys. Meanwhile Phoebe, a teenager from the sticks, arrives at the diner where Caprice works in order to find the owner, her father who left her 15 years earlier. Lastly, and most memorably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tapestry of Modern Living | 11/4/2005 | See Source »

...example, stretches credulity with its portrait of a decadent rocker, while Lily's character remains an enigma. Robinson does best with the two stories that are at the extremes of personal drama: one quiet and understated, the other of increasingly violent paranoia. Caprice, the cute, funny and loveable waitress with an unfortunate case of low self esteem that results in poor choices of lovers practically walks off the page she seems so real. Equally compelling, Steve the nut, a highly intelligent ego-maniac with deep "anger issues" ("I don't know why, but no one is meaner than a bunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tapestry of Modern Living | 11/4/2005 | See Source »

...upon the Dallas Cowboys' training complex in Valley Ranch, Texas, to do a different sort of digging. Less than 48 hours after the Cowboys beat the Minnesota Vikings 40-15 in their wild-card playoff game, Dallas police announced they were investigating a claim by a 23-year-old waitress that wide receiver Michael Irvin held a gun to her head as she was sexually assaulted by offensive tackle Erik Williams and another man, unidentified, in Williams' home after the Viking game. Bad news is nothing new to the Cowboys, who have already endured the drug suspensions of Irvin, defensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Real Team | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...Sunday, in pre-dawn Austin, Kate, the waitress, set down my eggs and said: “I served her yesterday...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beautiful Zadie’s Novel Disappointingly Dense | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

Still recovering from her final sentence, one of those constructions meant to recall possibility and beauty and humanity all at once, I flipped through the blank excess sheets, and thought, it’s a good thing Kate the waitress hasn’t read this...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beautiful Zadie’s Novel Disappointingly Dense | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

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