Word: high-heeled
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...Cambridge, Mass., Harrington Elementary School, the gooey classrooms are broken down into "learning centers." In one, a first-grader fits pieces of an alphabet puzzle together. Near by, two girls dressed up in oversized high-heel shoes set a dinner table. A small group, with a teaching assistant acting as secretary, dictates words that will eventually make a whole story. Says Teacher Louise Grant: "Children need opportunities to express their own thoughts. The learning process is easier because there is an interest...
...high-heel wearer soon learns what most women already know: heels may look good, but they are not easy to wear-at least initially. Men must take shorter steps than most of them are used to and be careful not to stumble while climbing steps or catch their heels riding escalators. "It's a whole new trip," says Maurice Boucher of L.A.'s Vibrations Boot Parlor. "Men have never had to think about changing their style of walking or sitting or even driving a car." To ease the transition, many store owners recommend that their customers wear...
More formalized political language characterizes the other rewrites of hard rock songs on the PLP-LP. "High-Heel Sneakers" becomes "Get Out Your Red Flag Workers." "Governor Sargent's Racist Cutbacks Blues," sung to the tune of "Memphis," does feature some good lines...
...High-Heel Sneakers...
...subway, change at the office to the good old loafers stashed in her desk. No more must suburban housewives, in town for a day's shopping and a night's entertainment, lug their evening shoes (concealed in paper bags) around with them until dinner and high-heel time. Says Designer David Evins, a pioneer of the walking shoe: "Women want to get away from the 4-in. needle heel. It has an artificial look. Today there is a feeling of desiring comfort and ease in a shoe...