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Darryll Deever (William Hurt), a young Vietnam Veteran, works as a janitor and dreams of meeting Tony Sokolow (Sigouney Weaver), a beautiful television reporter. When a man is murdered, Deever pretends to know more than he does--to attract Tony. He discovers that his innocent lies attract more than the reporter: the killers want him; the victim's cohorts want him; the police want him and Tony Sokolow only wants the story...
Most managers and Deans claim that they are vigorously seeking "qualified" minorities yet it has been nine years since I saw a black Janitor in Harvard Yard and I have never seen a black secretary in University Hall. I am sure that they are there, I simply didn't age them during my seven years as a proctor in the Yard...
...things caused O'Donnell to question the officers' account. Bowden had worked as a janitor at Boston City Hospital since the age of 17. O'Donnell doubted that someone who had held a steady job for that long would suddenly turn to robbery. Then there was the policemen's claim that Bowden had tried to ram one of them with his car. "I happen to know," O'Donnell told TIME's Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, "that when police want an out, they always say that. When I read the newspaper story, my life behind...
...schedule on Lord and Taylor's Boylston St. entrance says the store opens at 10 a.m. But this and every morning a janitor unlocks the doors and lets shoppers inside 15 minutes early. Just within the lobby, a waitress serves coffee from a portable cart and invites customers to relax on folding chairs nearby...
Canaday C-entry eats together, stringing together one in-joke after another. They talk about putting the doorknob through the wall, and they joke about their janitor. No one complains about "isolation" or unfriendly neighbors. "I expected people to be a lot colder. Everyone, especially the people in my entry, is very nice," one freshman says...