Word: valet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amenities: Multilingual concierge staff: complimentary morning newspaper, valet parking, baby-sitting, overnight complimentary shoe shine, laundry and "secretarial services...
Amenities: Swanky Oak Bar, 24-hour concierge, 24-hour private dining, multilingual staff, beauty salon, babysitting service, Executive Business Center, 24-hour valet parking, same-day laundry, health spa (with security cameras for those who might be cheating on their exercises) and lobby gift shops...
Consider Dave Powers, President Kennedy's longtime assistant, personal valet and friend, who died last weekend at the age of 85. Powers epitomized loyalty, helping to preserve the Kennedy legacy as curator of the JFK Library in Dorchester. Kennedy credited Powers with making his career in politics, for it was the older Powers who helped the still-ailing young candidate for the 10th Congressional seat up creaky stairs in Cambridge and Charlestown tenements to meet voters. Powers was behind the scenes for every campaign thereafter. In turn, Powers credited Kennedy with taking a poor newsboy and bringing him into politics...
There's also the hunger for having it all, a voracious desire to devour life--and food. Aside from the Mexican chow consumed during this late-afternoon interview, a solicitous valet furnishes Travolta with a box of chocolate ladyfingers, mere snacks "to tide him over" until dinner. Lunch can be an orgy of steamed lobster or an artery-choking beef Wellington. His sister Annie marvels at this "Vanderbilt" life-style, where 24-hour chefs cater to any food fantasy. Even during a marketing powwow for Primary Colors, Nichols recalls, "everyone brought along sandwiches except John, who was served four...
...nude dancing mecca," where a single escort service lists more than 100 different options in the Yellow Pages, and the giveaway tourist guide, This Week Atlanta, offers boxed reviews of skin houses. Atlanta's strip joints do have their idiosyncrasies (they boast Internet addresses, atm machines and free valet parking, and one, on Corporate Boulevard, actually advertises "corporate atmosphere"), yet the unbroken lines of Girls-R-Fun clubs and joints presenting "250 Platinum Girls" throw some of the city's sobriety into question. When Billy Payne appeared on Moscow TV live (via satellite) this year, extending "a most warm Southern...