Word: doormen
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While working paid detail at the Hong Kong restaurant in Harvard Square, Officer Brian Mushlin noted a man who looked drunk with alcoholic breath, bloodshot eyes and unsteady on his feet. One of the doormen at the restaurant reportedly asked the man to leave several times but the suspect began to argue...
...think of the Oberoi Hotel, which lords over the Marine Drive skyline, its windows glittering. I think about the polished marble lobby of the Taj, watched over by doormen who swing open the hotel entrance with gloved hands...
...London for a few days each week he takes a suite at Claridge's, the last word in posh hotels. For a boy raised in what was then the threadbare industrial city of Leeds, it's nice. Or as Hirst puts it: "I like having the doormen say: 'Welcome home...
...public space. The Department of Homeland Security has also launched Port Watch, River Watch and Transit Watch. Then there are the familiar Neighborhood Watch groups, many of which have expanded their missions to include homeland security. In New York City, government outsourcing of surveillance has even trickled down to doormen and building superintendents, thousands of whom are being trained to watch out for strange trucks parked near buildings and tenants who move in without furniture...
...nearly a decade, seniors from my school—their interest cultivated by one of the industry godfathers, who had a son enrolled—have filed, in groups of two and three, into the bowels of New York’s ritziest urban dwellings. Student doormen like me—hailing from Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, Amherst—are paraded through the upper halls to be half-heartedly celebrated by residents, shown off as symbols of the security and assistance that are a phone call to the basement away...