Word: bellhopping
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...working, though, Perelman can be so funny it's almost awe-inspiring. What can one say about the words he sprinkles through the book, always in impeccably proper context: words like dyspnea, archimandrite, steatopygous, and eisteddfod? And what would Dickens have given to use this description of a bellhop at an old Hollywood hotel: "a stoop-shouldered, overworked wraith with an air of patient resignation like that of Zasu Pitts." Perelman is making a pass at a beautiful colleen (all his women are beautiful but for lips or nostrils that are a trifle too sensuous, a figure a shade...
...Effortless. Flip eventually traded his khakis for a bellhop's uniform at San Francisco's Manor Plaza Hotel, where he made his nightclub debut playing a drunk. Soon he was hustling laughs in California saloons and slowly filling a loose-leaf notebook (which he still keeps) with his observations on comedy. Cardinal tenets in the Wilson canon: "Be interesting, be impassive, be effortless." Above all: "Make them remember Flip Wilson as a self-confident man of the world, projecting an 'I Don't Care If You Laugh' attitude...
...bellhop brought Pepsi and Michelob for the overheated professors. Bator had iced coffee. The phone rang. Bator answered...
...College in Lake Worth after a year, dropping out with two Cs, one D and four Fs in his seven courses. "It just seemed like the 13th year in high school," Calley says now. He had an ulcer at 19. After he left college, he worked as a hotel bellhop, then a restaurant dishwasher. He became a strikebreaking switchman on the Florida East Coast railroad; soon he was promoted to freight-train conductor and earning as much as $300 a week with overtime. He once got demerits for letting several cars get loose from a locomotive and smash into...
...trip to Las Vegas is enough to restore your faith in the old values. LADIES MUST WEAR BATHING HATS AND SWIMSUIT TOPS, reads the sign by the Flamingo Hotel pool. Where else in the U.S. can you still find big bands, a 49? breakfast, and a bellhop who says: "Why don't you just relax, sir, while I unpack your bags?" How many other cities the size of Las Vegas (pop. 290,000) can boast 143 churches and 159 Boy Scout troops...