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Shoes cannot simply adorn; they must protect and support. As a design object, they unite form and function, utility and style. Ferragamo's shoes were as engineered as a suspension bridge and as theatrical as a butterfly. "Elegance and comfort," he once wrote, "are not incompatible." From the moment he began making shoes in 1907 until his death in 1960, his motto was that women did not have to suffer to be beautiful; shoes did not have to pinch to be chic...
...might have said on seeing Disneyland, Walt is in the details. The spirit of Walt hovers over Euro Disney too. Mice with sewing needles and birds holding ribbons in their beaks adorn the capitals in l'Auberge de Cendrillon, the park's only French restaurant (try the dessert they call Cinderella's Slipper: chocolate mousse in a white-chocolate shoe mold). Dumbo snouts serve as the spouts for fresh water in man-made Lake Buena Vista. At the Hotel Cheyenne's Chuckwagon Cafe, which has antlers in all of its decorating, plastic horseshoes hold the condiments, and nailed...
...case against accountants revolves primarily around their function as auditors, which accounts for 60% of the profession's revenues. An additional 23% comes from tax planning and the remainder from consulting work. After examining a corporate client's books, auditors usually issue a letter intended to adorn the company's financial statement and certify that the statement is free of errors that could distort the company's fiscal picture. The note often includes the auditor's opinion of the company's business risks. But, cautions Dennis Beresford, chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the profession's chief rule-making...
...NATION is in worse shape than you thought. The U.S. Postal Service has decided to let the people choose which visage of the King will adorn the inaugural stamp of the Legends of American Music series. After considering over 50 designs, the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee (this actually exists) submits for your approval two Elvises: the pelvic '50s "Love Me Tender" crooner and the fur-clad '70s Vegas denizen of "Burning Love" fame. Larry Agran will not be included...
...visited only by a few ghosts, like myself, from the glorious days of Charles Kuhn. "Es ist der Geist der sich den Korper baut" (spirit creates the body) can still be read on the facade, but today's spirit is one of greed. Werner Otto's name could hardly adorn an air-conditioning machine, no matter how expensive...