Word: doorman
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...yells over to the attendant, "get her a car, huh?" The doorman flicks on his walkie-talkie and calls for a car. A minute later, a limousine pulls up, and the door opens. Someone else says, "Her" and points to me. So I get in. The limo rolls down Mount Auburn street and stops in front of the Lampoon Castle (rented for the evening), where a few of my 'poonster acquaintances are loitering. The driver walks around to open my door, and I step out as a camera shutter fires...
...debut. One night he is a lisping, languorous biblical potentate, concealing deadly willfullness within a Bette Davis-like camp distraction, as King Herod in Oscar Wilde's Salome. The next night, in the new Chinese Coffee by the relatively unknown Ira Lewis, Pacino is a manic-depressive novelist-cum-doorman, living on the extreme margins of the arts world in Manhattan and dreaming that the next confessional, autobiographical manuscript will justify his colossal self-importance. The only thing the roles have in common is that both show off his grace with language, whether Wilde's shimmering, overripe, pseudo-antique prose...
Jack Russ must have been surprised by his own success. The son of a gas- station operator from Picayune, Miss., he moved to Washington in 1967 and worked as a part-time doorman on Capitol Hill. He rose through the ranks to chief page and in 1983 became sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives. In that capacity Russ helped command a force of 1,265 black- suited police officers and oversaw the security of the 435 members of the House...
Republican members of the House ethics committee plan to introduce a resolution that would call for all House bank records to be made public -- and for the hiring of a professional manager to modernize and carefully audit Congress. That could mean only bad news for Russ -- a former doorman with no management training who had found himself with power, prestige and a six- figure salary...
...novel centers on Juan, an immigrant from Cuba, who wanders in and out of various jobs in the United States until he ends up in New York as a doorman in a fancy building on the Upper East Side. Throughout the novel, we meet the eccentrictenants of the building, from a man whose apartment is filled with candy to an oral surgeon who replaces teeth with artificial and permanent white smiles. Juan's goal is to reveal to these people the figurative "door" through which they may walk to find truth and spiritual contentment...