Word: doorman
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Reinaldo Arenas' book, The Doorman, bears some resemblance to the popular Ray Bradbury work The Martian Chronicles. Both satirize contemporary life by mixing symbols of daily existence with elements of the fantastic. In Bradbury's book, however, these various aspects were perfectly mixed and balanced. The author wove his tale using both these elements as his thread. Arenas is not nearly so skilled a craftsman...
...hotels. We're now averaging that many a day." While professional managers can keep operations on track, every hotel faces decisions that only the owner can make. Does a small roadside hotel really need a Nautilus room? Is it practical to have nightly bed turndowns or a 24- hour doorman...
RUDENSTINE lives in an elegant-looking apartment building on the corner of 54th St. and Lexington Ave., just a few blocks up the street from his office at the Mellon Foundation. I say elegant-looking because I never made it inside. I was stopped by a rather imposing doorman...
...doorman was huge, with a striped head (shaved blond streaks), a Mr. Universe tanktop on, and sun-bed glossy skin. He wasn't real interested in talking. But he told me her name. Phoenix...
...remember its name. It was a big modern place with a dance floor, and a large-screen tv for the music videos. I hung up her and Aline's coats, while they shuffled ID's to get in. Aline was only twenty, but when they told the doorman they worked at Visions he let them in. Phoenix is twenty-one. About five foot three...