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...better jobs. Arlene Silva Bacca, 29, a domestic servant who attends a center in Copacabana, has been studying for three months. "When I get my certificate I will become a secretary," she says. Genival Silva Costa, 46, a plasterer, is studying because his boss promised him a job as doorman or elevator operator if he finishes the course...
...Last Laugh. A 1924 silent film classic from Germany, staring Emil Jannings as the proud doorman of a luxury hotel, demoted to washroom attendent, until fate gives him the last laugh. 8:30, May 26. Chan...
When Gene Hackman was a young man just out of the Marines, he "slipped and slid around" New York City for two years in one job after another. One night, while he was working as a doorman at a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Times Square, his old Marine captain walked by. Their eyes met in awkward recognition. The captain looked him up and down and sneered: "Hackman, you're a sorry son of a bitch...
...diphtheria. The child frankly hoped that at last she would see more of her adored father. What usually happened was more like the afternoon he took her and three of their fox terriers for a walk as far as the Knickerbocker Club and parked his charges with the doorman. When father had not emerged six hours later, the doorman took child and dogs home...
...highest per capita G.N.P.: $2,900, up 10% from last year. Its residents own proportionately more cars, radios and phones than any of their Common Market trading partners. Social security benefits are among the most generous in the world, and sal- ary differentials are so minor that the doorman at the National Tax Ministry makes only 40% less than the Tax Minister himself...