Word: foyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spike. A journalistic tradition probably played its last Thursday night, the world allowing. The East Room presidential phantasmagoric press performance, sometimes called a press conference, went out soft-shoe and sotto voce with Ronald Reagan's retreat up the red carpet in the White House foyer. The U.P.I.'s Helen Thomas thanked him for No. 48, a miserly indulgence over eight years. Then she wished him a Merry Christmas and he was gone, muttering, "I heard Sarah ((McClendon)) over there, and I should have called on her." It is safe to say that Reagan probably heard and thought the same...
...Marlene Dietrich, but she "seemed to love you much more if you were not well. When you became strong and healthy, she loved you less." Then there was Joan Crawford. "At dinner, she was glamorous and very attentive . . . We went back to her house. We never got past the foyer . . . Afterward, we got dressed. She took me upstairs and proudly showed me the two children -- how they were strapped so tightly into their beds, how she diapered them so efficiently. It was so professional, clinical, lacking in warmth, like the sex we just had. I got out fast...
...leave for you in your well-appointed foyer...
...function. Just because the U.S. and all the European members of the U.N. are there, you oughtn't get the idea that it's open to the public. Should the general membership of the U.N. be invited, you will see a notice posted on the bulletin board in the foyer...
...also an ace stylist, and set loose in New York City he creates a Deluxe color version of an Old Hollywood vision: Manhattan in the '40s, with its twin thrills of grandeur and menace. The sidewalks gleam like a Bakelite floor. A hired gun jogs into a Fifth Avenue foyer...