Nice work for Fox, who was once trapped on the other side of the velvet rope.
Google has created the Silicon Valley equivalent of a velvet rope under its so-called Google Glass Explorers program.
Regularly, Murray would dive into the last weekend of major tournaments, only to be brushed aside at the velvet rope.
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Likewise, Millennials may party at the same nightclub, but only the affluent are escorted past the velvet rope to a separate (often elevated) section.
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Products like Mailbox, Pinterest, and Quora used velvet rope launch tactic.
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All promise much the same thing: a velvet rope to keep out the attitudinally unwashed, serendipitous interaction, quirky content and at least the illusion of egalitarian elbow-rubbing.
Google also isn't saying when it would lift its velvet rope and whether the same Draconian terms of service would apply when it does lift the velvet rope.
Compositions in exotic woods like paduk, curly koa and kwila, they were practical as desks, sideboards, whatever, but so sculptural you could hang a velvet rope around them and charge admission.
The smartphone maker is here to meet developers on their own turf, putting together a bumping house party with a backyard DJ and a velvet rope line up front.
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It is like sauntering past the velvet rope naked, if you want into any club (with translators and assistants at your side to insure your ever need is met).
That may not seem like much difference, but this is a house, so you are talking about stopping in a doorway with a velvet rope across it to look into a room with five people versus twelve, and the experience is much better with five.
But like Ryan, he has confounded skeptics who do not see him as velvet-rope NFL material.
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Brooklyn is a city of neighborhoods, of families, and there's always been a detectable civic resistance to the kind of velvet-rope polish you find in Manhattan.
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