Word: doorman
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...your dorks, your losers, your thick-chained mooks from Jersey yearning to get lucky. For them I would open the golden door while the beautiful people waited outside. I could do this because Lotus, the hardest club to get into in Manhattan, let me work the velvet rope as doorman last Thursday, giving me complete control over who entered. I called all my friends, told them to dress badly and show up after midnight. To up the dork content even further I sent an e-mail to the entire TIME staff, many of whom promised to come. A large percentage...
...that night, I was given an earpiece, a sleeve microphone, a clipboard, two giant bodyguards and a stack of tickets: $20, $10 and comp, which I could give out at will. I was assisted by doorman Brantly Martin, 23, whose only advice in evaluating women was to turn away trashy ones. When I pressed him, he explained, "No fake breasts." This whole beautiful-people thing, I was learning, is highly subjective. When I asked him if a group of women in line met his qualifications, he shook his head and said, "Look at shoes. You can always tell...
...always miss one thing," Scali says. "The doorman or Mr. McCarthy will recognize who we may be. When they come in, everyone scatters. The bottles are gone, glasses are gone, you're just sitting there. These kids aren't stupid, they know they're doing something wrong...
...going to have a baby?" her doorman asks cheerfully. Guralnick, 38, smiles and nods but has no time to chat. She's a doula, also known as a childbirth assistant or labor coach. One of her laboring clients has called and requested her presence. She will be with the parents through the labor and delivery, which could be anywhere from three hours to three days...
...There is a doorman in place who checks IDs and a policeman on paid detail [employed by McCarthy for the evening]," Rafferty said. "Both checks are designed to prevent the kind of incident that brings us here today...