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...more comfortable, but that didn’t stop me from feeling hopelessly out of it in the elevator every morning. Inevitably, I’d pull up to a corner only to find I’d parked my flip flops next to a smart set of Manolo Blahniks. I could feel every eye in the elevator staring with pity down at me and would shrink in provincial shyness against the wall...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, | Title: Spiked and Dangerous | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

Perhaps it's because success was once so elusive that Lisa Scottoline wears it so conspicuously. There are the leopard-print Manolo Blahnik mules, the Blue Cult jeans and Ralph Lauren sweater, the gold Cartier bracelet and the white S500 Mercedes. Her home--a stylishly refurbished Pennsylvania farmhouse on 43 acres--is a grand monument to a blockbuster career that the author has painstakingly built from the ground up. Sometimes called the female John Grisham, Scottoline (pronounced Scot-oh-lee-nee) is a star among the burgeoning ranks of lawyers turned best-selling novelists. Devil's Corner (HarperCollins; 393 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pinstripes And Pearls | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...City devotees may want to brush up on their algebra before they go shopping for their next pair of Manolo Blahniks. Mathematically inclined scientists at the Institute of Physics in London have devised a back-of-the-envelope (and slightly tongue-in-cheek) formula to help a woman determine just how high her heels can go before she topples over. Among the variables: number of years' experience wearing towering heels, time elapsed since the shoe was the height of fashion, and number of social cocktails the wearer plans to imbibe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Medicine From A To Z | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...even a little thigh--started appearing on billboards around their country. Unilever quickly cleaned up its Lux soap ads by pasting a more modest dress on top and joked that Parker was bundling up for winter. Just, please, for mercy's sake, say they didn't touch her Manolo Blahniks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Style That Doesn't Translate | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...stroboscopic girls in slices boys dry-humping in-heat bitches he’s not cool got little dickie his cum dumpster is what she is oh fuck that sucks it’s so ghetto scarfed a whole line with a green straw from the heel of her Manolo gotta get laid...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Book Review: I Am Charlotte Simmons | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

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