Word: doorman
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...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? seem idyllic. The dialogue, thanks to a flair for dating and placing people, is impeccably tailored for period and person. As for a sense of class, without which no English novelist can hope to function, Wilson's is as sound as the doorman's at Claridge...
...Grands Cinq" (the other four: Monte Carlo's Hotel de Paris, Cannes's Carlton, Beaulieu-sur-Mer's La Réserve, Cap d'Antibes' Hôtel du Cap). It is also the most colorful, with its pink-and-green cupola, its doorman in blue knee socks, red pants, buckled shoes and jaunty red cockade, its one-ton Baccarat crystal chandelier in the lounge-and a main floor men's room copied from Napoleon's campaign tent, with toilet paper in saddle bags and spigots of 18-karat gold. No two guest...
...turned out, however, to be the Continental Hotel, and their urgent entreaties to the windows brought forth only the doorman, who told them with bewildered politeness to get the hell off the property...
Poet & Boxer. The most radical change is in the clubroom facilities. At the old Met, members had an elegant and spacious pad that was only a few bars' stroll from the bar and had a private entrance tended by a liveried doorman. The new room, decorated in quiet browns and blacks, seats 80 fewer members than the old, and the screens that separated women guests from the stag section have been removed...
...supporting roles are strong. Chris Baker plays the chorus leader with rhetorical flair, and Pat Diehl is appropriately massive, first as Herakles and late as Aecus, the doorman of Hell. The frog chorus, made up of Raker, Diehl, Popovich, and Fred Whelan, sings everything from march tunes to Christmas carols with polish. The Initiates, led by Jane Jackson, perform with fervent abandon, and in the second act create a hissing, cheering audience for the great debate...