Word: imelda
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...testimony before a House Asian and Pacific affairs subcommittee, two New York City real estate executives told how they helped Marcos and his wife Imelda secretly acquire New York real estate. Faced with prosecution for contempt of Congress if they kept silent, Joseph and Ralph Bernstein described the complicated dealings of the Philippine first family, who allegedly hold three office buildings and an enclosed, multistory shopping mall in Manhattan, estimated to be worth some $350 million. Joseph Bernstein even recalled joining Mrs. Marcos on a midnight drive to a Wall Street building, where she went to gaze in admiration...
...spirit of this award let me suggest that the Business School give an award to Imelda Marcos for her contributions to Fashion Marketing. Maybe she'll give Harvard a few pairs of shoes...
...lawyers for the deposed dictator fended off legal actions, citizens of Davenport, Iowa, responded enthusiastically to a disk jockey's appeal to ease the plight of the Marcoses--sending 1,500 pairs of used footwear, including bowling shoes and swim fins, to replace the collection former First Lady Imelda left behind at Malacanang Palace. One hundred pairs were sent to Mrs. Marcos, the rest to the local Salvation Army...
...Only a sane person would think to ask. An Eskimo hunter who kills only the game necessary to feed his family would have been horrified by Theodore Roosevelt, who could not have consumed more than one ten-thousandth of the animals he slaughtered. Roosevelt loved hunting the way that Imelda loves shopping. He loved the kick of the gun and the smell of the powder. He loved the antlers. The same sportive hormones may be active in Imelda. Nature is filled with wild waste, unthinkable redundancies. Why does nature toss off a billion sperm when only one of them...
Consider her profligacy in another way. What is the purpose of riches? To buy freedom--to purchase choices, immunities from the will of others, or of fate. If Imelda kept a collection of 2,700 pairs of shoes, it was not because (as some candle-snuffing moralists might think) she should be expected to wear them all, and must be judged a wastrel if she did not, but because the 2,700 pairs gave her options. Her step no doubt grew lighter in the knowledge of such freedom. Did she display her shoes the way that Jay Gatsby reveled...