He had a framed photograph on his desk of himself with General John Campbell, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
But the light is institutional bright, and the man at the desk identified himself as a "security official" rather than a doorman; asked about the building, he handed over a flier with information about federal housing assistance.
Clearly he's done some desk time himself, and has harvested from those dreary hours a sly gift for translating the dross of small talk into subtle, quietly quirky comedy.
Apart, that is, from a sliver of "moonlight" that will illuminate its creator and master of the mixing desk: Stockhausen himself, who, we are promised, will be dressed in an all-white suit for this special occasion.
A risqué picture by Helmut Newton–"Office Love," showing a suited man atop a desk, stretching himself over a woman brought $25,000 at a Christie's auction late last year.
He spent his first year at the anchor desk educating himself on American domestic affairs in preparation for the 1984 presidential campaign season.
Mr. Pozner himself appears on "Mult Lichnosti"; his character occasionally plants his face on his own desk, having put himself to sleep with his stories about the old days.
After a while he came back, greeted us, then went straight to his desk and busied himself.
She's unstoppable!" Tom said as he passed their desk, chuckling to himself.
Overwhelmed, he took to chaining his foot to his desk to force himself to dictate revisions in patients' charts.
