Word: doorman
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...businesslike grey summer suit, red and white striped bowtie and soft black loafers. Stepping to the pavement, he turned slightly, tossed the driver of the rented limousine a "Thank you, James." Then David John McDonald, 53, president of the United Steelworkers of America, strode confidently past the smiling doorman, through the revolving door of the elegant apartment hotel...
...plaid jackets, burgundy shirts, and tartan tam-o'-shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort of costume, reinforced by his Vandyke beard, produced a distinctly undiplomatic effect, and veteran Foreign Service men still recall with delight the day when a newly arrived junior official, mistaking him for the doorman of the Moscow embassy, curtly handed U.S. Consul Ward his luggage and a two-ruble...
...Money, No Sex. After the wedding Sol wanted to settle down in The Bronx ("There was a nice apartment there, with a doorman and everything, near Yankee Stadium"), but Yolaine picked the Century on Central Park West. ("I can remember when I was a child," Sol recalled wistfully, "and used to walk in the park and see the Century. That was class. I never expected to live there.") Yolaine's father, Murray Gross, who had made a fortune in brassieres, bought the furniture and wall-to-wall carpeting for their 4 ½room suite...
...life, the reader will never find out more than that a heel is a heel is a heel, but he will get a behind-the-camera TV education. He will learn how to tell an executive's importance from the kind of humor with which the doorman greets him and how a recorded quote can be transformed from hostile snarl into eulogy by cutting and splicing tape...
Since dawn, the telephone had been ringing. At 8 the house phone began croaking as the doorman, 16 floors below, helped to screen visitors. De Sapio's wife answered the calls. De Sapio stayed at the kitchen table, talking to a visitor he deemed highly important...