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New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

Source: In Saturday Review, 5 Feb 1966.
-- Alan Brien, (Mar 12 1925-2008), English novelist, journalist, critic; He wrote for the Sunday Telegraph and Spectator; his works include essays in Domes of Fortune, 1979 and the novel Lenin: the Novel, 1987.

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