Word: lounger
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...says Bobby, with a wistful half smile, settling back into his favorite lounger. "You win some, you lose some." Besides, he confides, "Vickie said she wasn't going to hold it against...
Affectionately called the "Kong" by Harvard students, the seedy-looking cocktail lounge draws college students from all over the country because of its famous scorpion bowls, says lounger manager Lilly...
...called business class. This is nicer than coach but a little less plush than first class, which tends to cause jitters among the watchdogs who monitor corporate expense accounts. With all of that, could revamping of the seat itself be far, uh, behind? Now TWA has introduced its "Business Lounger," the airline's answer to one of the worst problems in the sky: flying fanny fatigue...
Wider and plusher than standard airline seats, TWA's lounger has a little padded footrest and reclines up to 40 degrees. Says its developer, TWA Industrial Designer Daniel Sauter: "It's a kind of mixture between a barber seat and a La-Z-Boy chair." The design redistributes weight to the legs and back, putting less of it on the buttocks. TWA expects that its lounger will keep it flying high in transatlantic business, where it now leads all other airlines. Says Jesse Liebman, a TWA vice president: "Passengers vote with their feet." With other parts of their anatomy...
College students cluster in the lobby of a Pittsburgh Holiday Inn, taking a break from workshop sessions on how to sell textbooks in the summertime. Only the aberrant lounger among them would admit to not being a moviegoer. The students' age and educational bracket put them squarely in one of Hollywood's most devoted and tuned-in markets. Robert Redford or Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino could not walk through this crowd unrecognized; Brando might provoke understated pandemonium. Suddenly, the hottest actor now at work in films appears in the lobby and passes through. No one notices. Robert...