From around the corner of 45th Street, a small, sleek man in a derby hat appeared.
I could not open my mouth for the foam, but the sleek man in the next chair somehow managed to get shaved with a straight razor and bark into his cell phone at the same time.
The sleek man at the door bears no resemblance to the chubby pink-haired troublemaker whose snarky website made him as famous as the celebrities he loved to torment with nicknames like Sluttyienna (Sienna Miller), Potato Head (Rumer Willis) or Maniston (Jennifer Aniston).
But the fashion revolution he proposes is a practical one: to maintain his sleek men's suit in gray jersey, he says, "just toss it in the wash".
For certain New Yorkers it was a familiar scene: mountains of hors d'oeuvres, opulent flowers, open bar, the paparazzi outside, the sleek men and women admitted to indulge and to gawk.
Ah yes, returned the sleek young man.
Sischy had sat down at a table next to a stranger, a sleek, youngish man who, as soon as they had exchanged names, turned away from her and began talking to the person on his other side.
It was a matter of trifling importance, the sleek young man seemed to be suggesting, that New Labour's Grande Armée was advancing on every front, trampling over the Tory heartland and forcing the Conservatives to fall back in disarray, torching all behind them.
You see one world in the gangbuster opening that, with a racing camera, follows a sleek, unidentified man as he hurtles through a day in a matter of moments, rushing out of his home, whooshing into an office, bolting from a meeting and all but flinging himself into the arms of one woman before embracing another.
There's a twinge in the pianist's shoulder, but this time Mingus focuses like a nozzle his surge of imprecations on a sleek black man bent chattering across a table to his lavish date: "This is your heritage and if you don' wanna listen, then you got someplace else you'd better be".
Sleek, handsome men chat on cell phones.
