Word: doorman
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...doorman and the manager conspired to stop their progress. The charge of intoxication was, of course, ridiculous," that article continued...
...women with thick New York accents chatted about their families. A teenage girl in a light blue satiny shirt stood reclining against her boyfriend. A smartly uniformed doorman on 75th St. told those blocking his entrance about a store where they could find a magazine. In the autumn rain, umbrella salesmen were making a killing...
...belching smoke in her windows. She then sought out the relative anonymity and familiarity of New York City. She bought an apartment on upper Fifth Avenue across from Central Park. As a child, living two blocks away on Park Avenue, she played in the park. She emerged from her doorman-protected life to help Bobby Kennedy out on his presidential run. His assassination stunned and depressed her. Frank Mankiewicz, Bobby's press secretary, recalls meeting her the night he was killed. "Jackie told me that some people are acquainted with death and some are not," Mankiewicz says. Talking of women...
...first show, O'Brien defused the hype over his arrival with aplomb and good humor. In a taped opening bit, he was seen jauntily walking to work on D- day, as everyone from his apartment doorman to NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw warned, "You'd better be good." When John Goodman appeared, the screen flashed FIRST GUEST and he was mobbed by photographers. When Drew Barrymore showed a provocative photo of herself in a Guess? jeans ad, O'Brien yelped with mock lust, then showed a cue card that read, OW! WOW! OWWW! "Everything's written down for me," he said...
Doormen have seen it all, and Abdul, our particularly excellent doorman, is as wise as they come. So I repeated his comment to a cynical Wall Streeter I'll call Mac, who replied cheerfully, "I'll support any sacrifice -- so long as it's someone else's sacrifice...