Word: portering
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...could you do this to us?" the unshaven porter shouts angrily at Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek. The porter used to have a regular parking place for his motorized tricycle, but now he has been displaced by a new taxi stand. "We're a whole family, and we need this place to make a living!" he cries...
...what's going to become of us?" the porter demands...
French department Chairman Charles Porter, who opposed the new requirement, said that "it would be foolish to create the sense of bad will which you get with requirements." Most students at Yale know a second language before coming to college, he added...
...lights rise on a fairly elaborate living room, cluttered and homey No streetlamps here: the idiom is absolutely current, the conversation of two writers in their early 20s grounded in references so familiar and accessible that they occasionally give one pause. The writer, John Monroe (Kevin Porter), is an Amherst dropout writing a novel. A former girlfriend wanted him to go back to business school, he tells Natalie, the lover who narrates his story, but the relationship went nowhere Natalie. (Pamela Thomas) has graduated and now works as a secretary in the publishing house where John hopes to submit...
...stand it does--for Salomon, it soon becomes evident, can really, truly write dialogue. The continuing repartee between Natalie and John, besides revealing humor and a fine ear, clearly delineates a couple of unusual characters. Porter, the stronger actor, fashions a strikingly individual Johnny out of scenes and speeches that often border on the lyrical. There are jokes with a personal stamp, characteristic expressions, a characteristic cadence. After he has left the outraged Natalie for two days, he returns to her with a speech about a pool game that evokes both a concrete scene and a mental state with startling...