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...gladiators?were the fighters' outfits, including their short-skirted armor and, most memorably, their distinctive sandals, often just a pair of leather soles strapped to the feet with leather guards to protect the shins. Back then, gladiator sandals served a practical purpose, but today?nearly 2,000 years later???they cater to a very different crowd, turning up at modern-day spectacles (think movie premieres and nightclub sorties) for purely sartorial purposes. In recent seasons, the fashion flock has adopted the tough footwear as its own form of armor. The style has proved an able antidote to a flowery dress...
...they were married. Says Simon: "I knew immediately she was the girl for me. She was very beautiful, very athletic, very warm. She had very definite ideas, she was very vehement in her own scenario, but she was very supportive. She stopped working?which I think she probably regretted later???and gave herself over to the children and the relationship. I got very spoiled...
...days later???at 2:35 p.m. on Monday, March 30?the State Department command center informed me that the television networks were reporting that a gunman had fired shots at President Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton Hotel but that the President had escaped injury. I picked up a telephone connected to a direct White House line. James Baker told me that the first report was inaccurate. The President had been struck "in the back" by a bullet. "It looks quite serious," Baker said. "I'm going to the hospital...
...Tashkent, Palermo or Samarkand (whose telephone directory, stolen by him in 1956 and listing 100 subscribers, is one of Steinberg's more cherished souvenirs). Provoked by a "geographical snobbism," he and his wife, the artist Hedda Sterne?they were married in 1944 and fondly separated without divorcing 16 years later???became epicures of travel...
Anthropologists now believe that man's family tree (see chart) goes back to a primate called Dryopithecus, a true ape that appeared some 20 million years ago. Much later???by 14 million years ago?the Dryopithecus line had split into three branches...