Word: clerking
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HUPD determined that Reid had been admitted to Currier House by the bells-desk clerk after telling the clerk he was a dining services employee...
...from the James Brown songbook; other tunes could back up gangsta rap (though it's unlikely Method Man would tolerate this couplet, from "Hollywood Freaks": "We drop lobotomy beats/Evaporated meats"). The fantastically mellow "Debra" even features an impassioned falsetto vocal delivered to the world's most sensuous J.C. Penney clerk. "I wanna get with you," Beck says. "And your sister. I think her name's Debra...
...Joshua Quittner. "While that's useful on the Internet, where we gravitate to those who are politically opinionated and even sensationalist, people like Drudge have a harder time surviving in the more limited realm of mass media." So Drudge, who harnessed a new medium to climb from gift shop clerk to columnist read by millions in a matter of years, retreats to the Web. There he has final edit on his Drudge Report site, the only criticisms come via e-mail, and "delete" is just a keystroke away...
...bells on the door jangled loudly as the door slammed behind us. A glass case heaping with cookies, pastries and pies stood in front of the balding clerk...
...This place is distinctly not the Man, I explained to my friend as the clerk wrapped up our canolis. This. . . Is real. She seemed to absorb this bit of instruction and then said, "So because this place is dirty," eyeing the bakery's dusty floor...