Word: doorman
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Before we had parked our mopeds on the street, there were people there to meet us. Among them were our Italian friend from the Castle Harbor and a guy named Tony who we later learned owned the Forty Thieves club. A doorman asked me for ID and I should him a picture card from my girls' day School "Finishing school girls," he nodded, I passed...
...occupying each other's brains like some terrible tumor until one of them dies." A theme here? Apparently not; he goes on to muse about middle age ("On the whole we are all quite game. It's life itself that seems to be wanting"), about his comical doorman, about whether to crank up an old affair with a woman who has sent him a postcard, about the arresting fact that the Manhattan Yellow Pages are available in Spanish. No, he decides, he can no longer write; the whole thing is hopeless. The novella peters out as messily...
DIED. Isidore Zimmerman, 66, a retired doorman who, imprisoned from 1937 to 1962 for a murder he did not commit, was awarded $1 million in damages last May; of a heart attack; in New York City. In 1937 Zimmerman was falsely implicated by one of the killers of a New York police detective and had his death sentence commuted to a life term just hours before he was scheduled to be electrocuted. In 1962 an appellate court ruled that he had been convicted on perjured testimony and that the prosecution had suppressed evidence that would have cleared him. After...
Brezhnev was his country-genial, brutal, boring. He had the face of both plodder and plotter, being something of each; a scholar's face and a doorman's, the kind one does not notice until it is in charge of things. In the West one saw him mostly in photographs: clapping solemnly at parades, his chest tiered with medals, his body like a metalwork; or embracing a world leader...
...something untoward irks the doorman and he takes a cautious step forward...