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...take myself seriously," saysDeVore, "because I find that in teaching, it helpsto let people know that deep down inside, I'm justthe barefoot boy from East Texas...
Agustin Lopez Santiz understands that all too well. He lives in the southern state of Chiapas, at the opposite end of the country from the shantytown where Colosio was shot. Santiz, 66, sits barefoot in the dust of Tuxaquilja, a village of 600 people, picking corn off a cob to feed his chickens. The earth is dry, rocky, infertile. Roads are ruts, and there are few public services. Looking down at the dirt, he says in a mixture of Spanish and Tzeltal, the local Indian tongue, "This is where we are from. We cannot leave...
Glennie relates to her battery of instruments through her sense of touch; to heighten her sensitivity to vibrations, she likes to perform barefoot. She conceives of her concerts in terms of the play of colors and emotions. During rehearsal, she will station an adviser in the hall to help her gauge dynamic levels, but otherwise her concessions to deafness are few. "I don't think in terms of loud and soft," says Glennie. "Instead I think of sounds as thin or fat, strong or weak. The amount of sounds you can create with just one cymbal are infinite...
...Neighbors in West Los Angeles found themselves sharing breakfast. "What a great way to meet people," one said. "We should do this more often." At a comedy club that offered free admission to anyone who brought something broken by the quake, Rick Alves presented his toe -- broken during a barefoot dash from his rattling apartment...
...doctors -- especially prosperous American doctors -- is an afterimage of the '60s, that crucial decade in the character formation of the people who now rule us. Back when Bill Clinton wore a beard and Hillary Rodham wore glasses, right-thinking college students were much taken with the romance of barefoot doctors, those Cuban and Chinese medicos who lived among the people, treating simple ailments with simple means instead of prescribing uppers for bored housewives or performing nose jobs on their insecure daughters. The attitude may have been filed away in a footlocker with the beads and the bongs, but its long...