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...session he may stop him on the street to rehash it. His office is on Fifth Avenue, but his favorite headquarters is Elaine's Restaurant, Manhattan's top celebrity hangout. He often winds up his 15-hour days-usually early in the morning-at his fourth-floor walk-up bachelor's pad on Manhattan's East Side with a diet cola and a Stouffer's short-ribs-of-beef dinner. He cooks four at a time and eats them cold out of the refrigerator...
Sipple lives in the sleazy tenderloin district in a fourth-floor walk-up apartment incongruously decorated with a chandelier, stained-glass windows and peacock feathers. He shares it with a merchant seaman. Sipple is known in San Francisco's large homosexual community, and two of its leaders, the Rev. Raymond Broshears and Harvey Milk, tried to make capital for the cause of the gay image out of Sipple's act. But Sipple refused to accept the role. He also gave high marks to the Secret Service: "Those guys did a terrific job. What more could they...
Champagne Apéritif. Promptly at 8:30, Giscard, 48, and wife Anne-Aymone, 41, knocked on the door of the three-room Cucchiarini flat-a fifth-floor walk-up on the Left Bank. They were greeted by Claude, 46, his wife Louise, 44, and eight other friends and relatives. After a champagne apéritif 'in the small yellow living room, the guests sat down to a dinner of potage de cresson, bass en mousseline, côte de boeuf with jardinière de légumes, salad, and cheese (including a Cantal and a Gouzon from...
...stroke of genius, since the setting provides endless possibilities for novel situations; similarly, it is a relief that Rhoda's new boy friend is not an ad man or an architect, but in the wrecking and salvage business. As for Sand, he lives in a jumbled old walk-up and occupies himself as, of all things, a string-bass player with the Boston Symphony...
...Eastman that the sounds of the gym-a jump rope skipping against the floor, a bag being punched hard in irregular rhythm, the bursts of quick breath from the athletes- mingle with a Gregorian chant issuing, presumably, from upstairs. The place is called, after all. the New Avenue Walk-up Gym and Cultural Center. It could be a sort of royal court for the kind of kingdom Eastman creates, whimsical but not cute, tinctured with a sort of likely absurdity...