Word: heeling
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...second day of hanging with Evidente at the sale--of staring at cross-laced calves, of seeing tight snakeskin squeeze against an ankle, of telling women that even though the heel may be a little high to walk in all night, yes, I think it's worth it--I no longer see shoes. I see sex. This happens to me with most things I can't eat, but still, I'm impressed that Ben has done this to me. I'm even more impressed that I have somehow handed him my American Express card and have bought my wife...
Arnold's contradictions--if that's what they are--are an outgrowth of his two formative experiences: an iron-heel upbringing in Austria followed by all the lubrications of sun and fun and wealth that we still call California. He was born in the Austrian village of Thal, near Graz, in 1947, in the struggling years right after World War II. His mother was a homemaker. His father was a policeman and an avid performer of military music, which may help explain why Schwarzenegger sometimes reminds you of a one-man oompah band...
Byrne testified yesterday that after seeing Trombly make a sudden move, he hit the student with the heel of his hand, roughly pinned him against a wall-mounted mirror in the station house guard room and eventually slid him down on to a bench. He denied any further violence...
...likely winner. "Whatever the ultimate fuel source becomes," he writes, "we can be certain that it will be green." Well, thanks. That's about as useful as the horoscope that says: "You will have a meaningful encounter with someone you know." This is where scenario planning exposes its achilles' heel: Is a range of potential developments of any value if it leaves no clearer picture of the future? After all, Schwartz was part of a U.S. congressional commission that warned of a 9/11-type scenario among several others shortly before the attacks took place. The more possible scenarios drummed...
...says its asset sales are part of a long-term strategy to concentrate on high-end retailing and luxury goods and jettison most other businesses. "We're just implementing the strategy a bit faster and in better conditions than people expected," says a spokesman. But Pinault's Achilles heel is not so much the level of his debt as the value of the assets he has pledged to the banks against it. The stock of PPR, by far his most important holding, has dropped from a high of €268 to a low earlier this year around...