When asked why so many Yakuza favor Horiyoshi's studio, the artist removed his gold Cartier glasses before replying, "They drink at first class bars, keep first class women, and wear first class tattoos".
I followed First Officer Tom Chisenga as he threaded his way through the throngs on its lower decks until we emerged under a dark velvet sky on the top deck of first class, at the bar.
"Over its history, the Girl Scouts has always had something like the Gold Star," said Mary Stroock, the executive director of the Girl Scouts of Westchester/Putnam, "though in the past it's been called the First Class, the Curved Bar or the Golden Eagle".
This message comes not only from religious institutions that claim to preach the word of God, but from states and the American government that stigmatize gays as second class citizens, barred from experiencing the rights other Americans take for granted.
The cameras are allowed behind "millionaire's door" at Heathrow Terminal 5, a lounge, restaurant, spa and champagne bar reserved for First Class flyers.
My point is not to mark out some special First Class enclosure from which lesser mortals are barred.
During the first class, Michael and his two classmates swung from a bar and walked on a low balance beam.
Sorry, I mean, First Class.
