Word: janitor
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...family.” It has long been clear that Harvard’s workers are not considered part of that family. While University police officers address us carefully as “sir” or “ma’am”, a janitor protesting nervously outside the window of Mass Hall is sent on his way with a sharp “Hey, you!” Like parents humoring children into submission, the administration tolerates its students. A police officer declared, “we can get more from them with honey than with...
...tragedy"; in Manhattan. In wartime Europe, Gottleib was carted to Dachau but used his family's money to buy his freedom from the Nazis and was assisted to California by Albert Einstein, reputedly his mother's boyfriend. A sort of West Coast Will Hunting, Gottleib worked as a janitor at Stanford, where he simultaneously beat 30 professors at chess. After his nightclub and TV appearances in the 1950s and '60s waned, he resurfaced on Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s...
...shirt sportin’ hero.” Lost by his parents at the Grand Canyon, Dirt and his mullet have been on their own since he was eight. Never abandoning his lifelong goal of finding his family, the adult Dirt fends for himself by working as a janitor in a Los Angeles radio station. Constantly derided for his blatant white trashiness, the station’s producers can’t help but noticing the hapless Joe, and soon bring him on the air as fodder for the sardonic wit of shock-jock Zander Kelly (Dennis Miller, essentially playing...
...porch. In his acting debut, Kid Rock plays Robby, Joe’s competition for Brandy. Rock’s character is much like his rock & roll personality—badass white trash—and consequently he does a notably good job in the film. A high school janitor in the witness protection relocation program, played by Christopher Walken, and a Native American fireworks salesman also help Dirt during his quest...
...Connor trots towards Mudd while the medic pulls the ambulance around. Inside, a janitor is cleaning up the blood where a man hit his head after slipping. Co-workers stand nervously outside the door, waiting for news. O'Connor tries to figure out what happened while the paramedics carry the man to the ambulance--right out an alarmed emergency exit. O'Connor finishes his interviews with the alarm buzzing loudly in the background...