Word: saleswoman
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...declared one. Two bone-weary women quickly began bidding furiously against each other for the room, even though neither had seen it, driving the price up from the equivalent of $7.50 a day to $10. The negotiations were suspended by a uniformed policeman carrying a bullhorn who tapped the saleswoman on the shoulder and told her, "Lady, go home. This is not a store...
...multiplatinum artist -- his most popular record, Desire, has sold only 1.5 million copies to date -- Dylan could no longer fine-tune the zeitgeist all by himself, and his records were perceived as too personal or, worse, increasingly marginal. "What are they playing that guy for?" sneered a Manhattan saleswoman recently when a Dylan medley came on the radio. One playing of Empire Burlesque and all such questions become academic. Listen up. You too, Mr. Jones...
Natalie Tirrell, a cool cerebral presence who is Galanos' top model, his "first girl," drifts in and out, showing clothes carefully calculated to meet each client's taste. "That dress is no good, you can't have it," the saleswoman commands, in the bantering tone habitual to women whose living is made by treating other women like rich babies. The department keeps clientele books, with histories of purchases and discreet information on husband's job, working habits, traveling time, ages of children and weekend homes. Thank-you notes are sent, inquiries made about "your darlin' son Marc...
...good head on his shoulders. He's a very smart person," says 28-year-old Pamela Moniz, a saleswoman at New Bedford Shade and Drapery...
...install it as Cambridge's second best free evening out, second perhaps only to the Square's street musicians. Reading International, on the corner of Church and Brattle Sts., is open from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. (even later on weekend nights) or, in the words of one saleswoman, "just about whenever you want." A good thing, too, since this bookshop hosts an interesting mix of scholarly and popular books, periodicals and inexpensive classical records, while messaging your ears with jazz...