Word: loft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Almost as soon as he was awake, the subject began talking about the plot. NBC's Frank McGee, who had been present throughout, tried to shake his story. But the more McGee questioned, the more elaborate the story became. Where had he heard about the plot? In a loft over a playhouse in Greenwich Village. What...
remember about the loft? There had been an old movie poster of Rin Tin Tin on the wall, and he and his friends had been drinking Miller High Life beer. McGee asked if a Jack Harris had been involved. The name was completely imaginary, yet soon the subject slipped it into the conversation, confessing that Harris had really been the ringleader, and was a big man who 'looks like he could kill...
...fabrication until he was shown the film five months later. He was flabbergasted. Left of center politically, he thought himself fundamentally skeptical of Communist-conspiracy theories. Even the details did not strike any familiar chord. He does not drink any beer; he had never been to a Greenwich Village loft and knew no Harris or anyone like the man he had so vividly described...
...said "goodbye to union wages" and set out to lay the groundwork for a company of his own. He taught by day, took classes by night and, beginning at sunrise, held rehearsals for his own ballets, which were performed at the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. In 1952, he rented a loft in a Greenwich Village building that formerly housed the American Communist Party and, in the best spirit of free enterprise, opened Robert Jeffrey's American Ballet Center...
...first comes the doorman, a 300-lb. bearded ex-bouncer who checks membership cards. Next there is a one-story trip up in a leather-padded freight elevator; then out into the enormous main Factory loft, with its 30-ft.-high steel-trussed ceiling, 54-ft.-long bar, sea of dining tables and minuscule dance floor. Out back is another barroom, with four pool tables (the one covered in red felt is for ladies), barber chairs and church pews for the onlookers and oldtime coin machines to play while waiting. The men's-room graffiti are considered so choice...