"When Klein met a prospective client," Goodman writes, "it was his habit to simply ask, 'What do you want?' Invariably the answer was money. . . .
In "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning," Bourne, taking her lead from John Donne's "The Sun Rising," expressed the frustration well known to anyone cooped up in an office on a sunny day: Unruly sun, Why do you shine invariably from Mon.
"So what day do you celebrate?" is invariably one of the first questions I get asked whenever I inform someone that I am a leap day baby.
He would call his wife, Margaret, from work with a teasing "Do you miss me?" that invariably made her laugh.
And when the sales clerks offer you samples, as they invariably do, you can throw the little pleated paper containers (crinkle cups) into a black-and-white, pie-crust-edged wastebasket.
Then, invariably: "Do you get to keep the clothes?" and "What is Donatella Versace really like?" From Woodville to New York to Los Angeles, where he recently hooked himself up with an apartment and a talent agent, "these are the two questions I'm always asked," Lucas says.
Danders are invariably "up, do you hear?
Troopers invariably asked, do you have guns or drugs?
The friendly barista invariably asks, "Do you mean a tall?" "Oh, yes," I reply, "tall like me".
Mr. Bernstein, 74, said he had baked his way across the country, making bread and other goodies in 40 states, and that when he told his employers he was a baker from Brooklyn, they invariably asked, "Do you know how to make New York cheesecake?" He does, and it's a specialty.
