Word: doormen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wouldn't help for the rejected buyer to prove again that he can easily afford the monthly maintenance each resident pays to cover expenses like doormen's salaries and interest on the building's mortgage. Speaking of a building whose apartments carry a monthly maintenance of $12,000, one broker interviewed by Ms. Yazigi said, "Look, anyone can afford the maintenance. It's not about that...
Maybe that makeup was too good award: Matthew Mungle and Deborah La Mia Denaver, who made up James Woods as Byron de la Beckwith for Ghosts of Mississippi. When Best Supporting Actor nominee Woods arrived at the Governor's Ball, the doormen didn't recognize him and briefly barred his party...
Today Russian servicemen feel like second-rate citizens. Career officers find themselves in 13th or 14th place on the pay scale, behind the doormen of expensive Moscow restaurants and the maids who work for Russia's novy rich class. In fact, many officers now have to moonlight as bodyguards or laborers to feed their families...
Yuppies (or are we now "yuppies emeritus"?) find the whole subject a minefield of embarrassment, as the remains of 1960s values rub against 1990s bourgeois affluence. And leaving home is no escape. Hotels, in particular, seem intent on making you feel ridiculous, with their doormen dressed up like Nubian slaves and their insistence on having someone else carry your bag even if you're perfectly capable of carrying it yourself. You, meanwhile, follow along making desperate small talk and wondering nervously how many singles you have in your wallet. Who needs this...
...climb at the mountain's sufferance, and get back down if the mountain lets you. Why this is important is not clear, especially to those of us who do it. Once, in a pompous mood, I wrote, "We climb for the same reason that smoke rises and poodles bite doormen: it is our nature." This is baloney, but true baloney. The expert strung out below a featureless overhang knows it, and the ignorant weekenders who get in trouble are, for good or ill, plodding toward some such understanding...