Word: bouncers
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...javelin thrower; at least I wore a uniform that said I was"); his early years with music ("Stunk at everything I did. Music was the one thing I felt proud of"); his first encounter with Sandy Mahl, whom he would marry in 1986 (Brooks was a bouncer in a club. She threw a punch that went through a wall. But "I don't want anyone to think she's not a lady"); and his hungry times before breaking through, when he "went to Nashville expecting to see my name up on water tanks...
...warehouseman. Then the two quarreled bitterly, reportedly over his fondness for her niece, and she ordered him to leave her apartment. Now living in a tiny room and hustling for handouts on the street, he wanted her to take him back. She refused. When he swore at her, a bouncer ordered him to leave. He did, but with a parting threat: "I will be back. I will shut this place down...
...couple of years, Gaultier's spectacles have been upstaged by those of a former employee, Martin Margiela, the current darling of the avant- garde. For his show, Margiela, 31, rented an old railroad station now used as a truck depot. The scene outside resembled a hot disco, with a bouncer deciding who of the throng would...
...Holmes advised. We live in inundations of information. The air is dense with billions of fleeting names, images, factoids, electronic dust. Information jitters round in a Brownian movement. But there is a way to impose order on this incoherence. The mind must be a discriminating host. It needs a bouncer at the door...
...burly young bouncer to keep...