Word: schleppers
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...frequent posh nightclubs, Vegas high-roller rooms, designer-clothing stores or the front page of the New York Post. He does not care to give interviews (though he seemed amused when asked for one, and told a TIME reporter, "Have a nice day"). His couture is less dapper than schlepper: jeans and T shirts (he doesn't like wearing a tie), without the usual mobster adornments of a siliconed blond on each arm. He has never been accused of swagger. About as close as he got to being a public figure was in '87, when he was tried and acquitted...
...Cambridge restaurant and opened up a press get-together by brimming an empty beer glass with a local label. Sporting a neat beard and looking like a handsome Paul Simon without the emerging pate, Rudolph gazed out at the assembled journalists with all the aplomb of a seasoned schlepper of the talk show-press conference circuit who knows that this time around, he's got something special to market. And so it is with the 32-year old director; in Rudolph's case however, his heady success is more that of the young short-story writer whose first full-scale...
...Sondheim became co-author of West Side Story and an established Broadway lyricist. "Steve always wanted to be an American Noel Coward," Foxy recalls fondly. The lyrics for Sondheim's next show, Gypsy, with music by Jule Styne, revealed a Lorenz Hartfulness. He rhymed Mazeppa and schlepper, and the progression "he goes, she goes, egos, amigos" could have come from the master himself. Despite his growing reputation as a lyricist, Sondheim yearned to be recognized as a composer, although his credentials as a musician were skimpy. In 1962, though, he wrote the music as well as the words...
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