Word: doormen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because apartments are growing scarce. In desirable areas of such cities as New York and Los Angeles, the vacancy rate is under 1%, and landlords are using the shortage to vet prospective tenants and refuse those with modest incomes. Finding an apartment requires tramping the streets and often bribing doormen. Reports Norman Kailo, president of the New Jersey Association of Realtors: "Young marrieds are beginning to double up, and there are a lot of illegal conversions of one-family units into two-family...
...with substances such as procaine, lactose or?for an extra buzz ?amphetamines. When finally consumed, it may be no more than 10% pure. Martinez deals only with people he knows well. It is up to these additional middlemen, who know the right artists and hairdressers and doormen, to push it further toward the users...
...Sleazy-looking scalpers with cockney accents auction off their wares to desperate millionaires. Sad-faced teen-agers stare dolefully at the crowd, hoping that they might somehow crash the Prince Edward's lobby. No such luck. Only ticket holders are allowed past the theater's tuxedoed doormen, and the show is sold out until late fall...
...Doormen at some high-rise buildings gave tenants candles and flashlights to help them climb to their apartments, but others groped in the dark. Anyone living on the upper floors was without water because pumps had stopped and rooftop tanks were quickly emptied. Some people preferred to bed down in the lobbies or walk the streets. Others sat in their cars, listening to the news?any news about the blackout...
Many, especially liberals, display a touching reticence about admitting social and economic differences. Women often introduce their maids as "Mrs. Parker"-but they rarely tell the maid, "Mary, meet my friend Georgia." Doormen, among others, usually use Mr. or Mrs. when addressing the tenants, but expect to be called "Frank" or "Reuben." If a tenant in a democratic effusion should suggest that they both use first names, the doorman is often vaguely offended-something in the relationship has been disrupted...