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With the final vault height even, judges reverted to earlier marks to declare the winner. After several excruciating minutes, Brannon was given the first-place points because he had fewer misses in the previous vault...
Much of the sculpture from the '70s sounds better--or, at any rate, odder--as a conceit than it looks on the floor or the wall. It may be that the impulse to multiply the height of the letters of his written name 14 times their normal size and then trace the result in neon tubing satisfies some inner necessity for Nauman, but for anyone who isn't Nauman, it's meaningless. And you soon lose interest in the "animated" neon pieces, with their spasmodic one-two, on-off movements of violence or puppet sex. They are one-liner...
Foxman cited the stabbing death of a Jewish scholar, Yankel Rosen-baum, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn at the height of Black-Jewish tensions in New York City in the summer of 1991 and a shooting attack on followers of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson, as they drove along the Brooklyn Bridge...
Physical agony aside, the stiletto heel provides petites with coveted elevation. It's amazing what a few inches can do. Height grants you instant immunity from being patted on the head and called cute. tallness enables you to look out your peephole without standing on your tiptoes. And, best of all, those heelinduced inches lead you closer to your lover's luscious lips. What more could...
...high heel goes way, way back. Sixteenth-century Turkey witnessed the birth of the stiletto heel's earliest ancestor, the chopine, a wooden clog that could reach stilt height. Later, a more narrowly heeled shoe for women emerged during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. And in the eighteenth century, the French began their fashion influence with lovely decorated leather or silk shoes on high heels set under the arch of the foot...