Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phone rings as she walks through the door. "I knew he would call," she sighs, rushing to pick it up. It's midnight and she's returning from having a drink with a friend after a study session. "Honey, is that you? Where have you been?" whines her mother. "I've been calling for about two hours now... I couldn't go to sleep until I knew you were home safely...
...Main Street just beyond Central Square. It opened this September in space left vacant by Anago Bistro's move downtown to the Lenox Hotel. If not for the periodic rumble of the T massaging the feet of restaurant patrons, one could easily forget the cement jungle outside of the door. The interior is romantic and tasteful; even the walls are appetising, liberally dosed with colorful still-lifes of ripened fruit. A giant convex mirror reflects all of the patrons in distorted miniature, spotlit from above by track-lighting...
...proposal was not negotiated in good faith with our membership. It was arranged behind the backs of the members, in closed-door sessions in December. There was no mention of it at our December membership meeting. The members were never surveyed to determine their wishes. We were told nothing of what was happening until the deal was in the bag. No negotiating team was elected, for the second and, I hope, last time in our history. We have not since been provided enough detailed information about the proposal, nor time enough, to allow us to make an informed decision...
Store employees have no opinions of the eclectic inventory. Blodgett listlessly declares in a dull monotone, "It makes no difference to me." Further questions send her into retreat behind the "Employees Only" full-gauge double steel door in the corner of the store. Then she talks to the overlord they call "the manager," (an investigation of Blodgett's workplace during her absence reveals a small black box with hundreds of blinking lights, each possibly representing the heartbeat of a co-worker) and essentially disappears...
This jungle of twisted steel obscures the smallside door entrance that opens onto a rickedystaircase. The staircase climbs past a signindicating the availability of the daily racingform, past the body-shop's accounting office andfinally into the pool room at the top of thebuilding. Seven thinly-felted tables are crammedinto this rectangular box, with windows on theleft side overlooking the repairmen below. Sully's1996 "Best-of Boston" award, which seems to havebeen photocopied and posted so that a copy isvisible from every location in the building, isfor "Best Neighborhood Bargain Billiards," andit's well-deserved--it's hard to imagine...