Word: barefootedly
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...song is a familiar 12-bar blues in boogie-woogie tempo: two verses, a chorus ("Shake, baby, shake"), two verses of instrumental break (one featuring Jerry Lee amok on piano, his pummeling accentuated by an arpeggio as if he were running barefoot over the keys, and one of Roland Janes's less ornate but momentum-sustaining guitar work) followed by a reprise of the second verse with the inspired vocal filler "We got a chicken in the barn/ Whose barn? What barn? My barn!" (the drums whacking the "whose-what-my" to give it extra force and fun), then...
...revolt was slow in coming, that may be because most Americans hate to hate the rich. They'd rather envy them and hope to get there themselves. The '90s offered a whole new breed of heroes, not starchy heirs to fortune but barefoot geniuses who discovered new worlds in their garages, who wrote best sellers and sat grinning from magazine covers and defended the billions they made on the grounds that they were making us all rich in the process. You did not actually need to get richer to feel richer; even other people's paper profits had a magical...
...revolt was slow in coming, that may be because most Americans hate to hate the rich. They'd rather envy them and hope to get there themselves. The '90s offered a whole new breed of heroes, not starchy heirs to fortune but barefoot geniuses who discovered new worlds in their garages, who wrote best sellers and sat grinning from magazine covers and defended the billions they made on the grounds that they were making us all rich in the process. You did not actually need to get richer to feel richer; even other people's paper profits had a magical...
However bad it gets, there are some traditions from the old days that Kitty Teixeire refuses to let die. She greets visitors barefoot in a bedraggled sari at the doorless entrance to her collapsing bungalow. But when she serves coffee, she covers her splintered table with a white cloth and pours into what may be the only set of matching cups and saucers for hundreds of kilometers. "It was such a beautiful place," she sighs in her clipped vowels, a gift of her mixed Welsh, Portuguese and Indian blood. "But McCluskieganj just went down and down. Down the drain...
...swimming pool is the only reasonable place to while away the afternoon hours. If a room is not in your budget, day use of the pool costs $4. And if you really feel like splashing out, or your feet need a little maintenance after a day of walking barefoot through temples littered with bat guano, a pedicure in the '50s vintage beauty salon goes for $3. Call (91-7686) 723-55 for reservations...