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...brought up business. My family played, slept, are business. Everything is like running a business. Running a household is like running a business...Going to the bathroom is like running a business," says the winner of the Adams House "Greedy Capitalist" Award...
...club came to the first meeting of A.W.H.P.S., visiting Speakes' office where each had presided at one time or another over the past 30 years. "You've cleaned the carpet," observed Ron Nessen, who was Jerry Ford's man. "You've taken out the private bathroom," lamented George Christian, one of Lyndon Johnson's press officers, and still an astute judge of power perks. One of Christian's main innovations was still operational. That is a circular desk, situated in the office corner to prevent reporters from sneaking behind a press secretary and reading...
...handsome, popular WASP mayor to the socially prominent wife of a close Jewish friend; the "social marketplace" of Hamilton, a beauty shop frequented by women of diverse backgrounds; and, finally in the book's dramatic conclusion, the trial of a popular music teacher for masturbating in a department store bathroom...
...apartment also contains an exercise room, a sizable stretch of bookshelf holding weighty volumes of everything from Erté's costume designs to Donald Duck's Uncle Scrooge ("Wonderful! My favorite! Uncle Scrooge is my partner! He's Sergio Galeotti!") and a bathroom with a tub of Carrara marble big enough for Shamu the Killer Whale. The tub, Armani's one concession to abject luxury, also turns out, perhaps significantly, to be impractical. "It is so big," he admits, "that the water gets cold before it fills...
This tainted, conscience-stricken lawyer has seen lowlife from all angles, including a closeup in his bathroom mirror. When not obsessively recycling his own transgressions and those who have transgressed against him, Shea locks vividly onto the burglars, prostitutes, pimps, arsonists and killers who have crossed his path...