Word: receptionist
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...Tuesday before Thanksgiving, I took the train into New York to tape the show. As I walked into the studio receptionist's office at the Hotel Pennsylvania, a burly behemoth of a security guard sitting in the back of the room noticed me. "Name," he grunted...
...cryobank a visit. But the rigors of exam period get the better of me, so early on Tuesday afternoon I give the sperm bank a call, looking for a concession that clients can match up samples with their college of origin. I leave a long message with the receptionist--no one with the information I'm looking for is available--but as of press time, my call still hasn't been returned...
...used to be enough to observe the holiday privately, with drapes drawn to spare the neighbors our annual frenzy of giving and getting. But now the pressure is on to make some kind of Christmas gesture to every Tom, Dick and Harry who happens along. Take the jolly receptionist in our dentist's office, who started showing up Dec. 1 dressed as a living gift to all humankind, with a huge red bow on the top of her head, ornamental-ball earrings and a scrub shirt in an eye-catching teddy-bear-and-wreath print. So what's my Christmas...
...follow-up call, and when you can expect to hear from them. If you did not receive business cards from the people you met (or see their names on a diploma on the wall), you may call the company directly when you get home and ask the receptionist for their names and titles...
Earlier this year, a team of University of Chicago physicians led by Ernest and surgeon Dr. Samir Patel performed a complex operation on Pearl Van Vliet, a retired medical-center receptionist who was suffering from the same condition that had deprived Ernest's father of his sight. That disease is known as age-related macular degeneration, in which the eye's macula, a remarkably sensitive structure in the middle of the retina, gradually loses its ability to distinguish shapes and colors...