Word: pedestrianization
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...Magazine photo shoots have become like Buddhist temples: no shoes allowed. Not since Kennedy (triumphantly barefoot on the beach) defeated Nixon (wading through sand in brogans) has the naked foot been so bold. And the symbolism? The feet are now the windows of men's soles. Shoes are too pedestrian, too confining, too predictable. These fellows are so confident, they don't need footgear. All power; no loafers. Moguls can affect a Gandhi-like purity. Putting the best barefoot forward in this trend was TIME's 1996 cover shot of Netscape founder Marc Andreessen displaying his pedicure-needy toes. Other...
...rival any American mall, or just about. Although the quasi-legendary, Temple Street-made Rolexes and Cartiers have virtually disappeared due to heightened controls, the dozens of stalls sell everything from T-shirts, dumplings, breathing-fresh chicken, leather-goods, perfumes and CD's. Occasionally, the wandering, by-now-confused pedestrian can stumble onto an improvised, rousing performance of traditional Chinese opera, an experience never to be forgotten. At the side of the street, uninterested in the trafficking of shoppers and bargain-hunters, locals and off-duty taxi-drivers pause at an open-air restaurant, where they can taste the array...
...remote site for a two-week period, increasing the likelihood of tragedies. In 1994, 207 Indonesian pilgrims were killed in a stampede as worshippers surged toward a cavern for the symbolic ritual of "stoning the devil," while in 1990, 1,426 people died during a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel that leads from Mecca to Mina. Although Mohammed bin Al-Suhaily, director-general of the Saudi defense agency, said that 181 pilgrims are dead and 800 injured, witnesses placed the number of dead at more than 300. The official number may well rise as the rescue continues...
...juxtaposing these vividly colored, incongruous pictures, Gilbert and George render banal the images and provide witty social critique. Signed boldly in red by its co-creators, "Staring World" comments on celebrity worship and the information age's endless proliferation and confusion of images from the spiritual to the pedestrian...
...Greenberg, chairman of Bear Stearns and one of the Street's franchise players. This year Ace scored bonuses, on top of his cheesy $200,000 base salary, adding up to $18,840,701 in cash, stock and what a proxy statement calls "other compensation," more than double the pedestrian $8 million he got last year. And that's not the biggest take on the Street, or even in his own company. President and chief executive James Cayne will collect $20,159,337, enough to impress even an N.B.A. point guard. An embarrassment of riches? Perhaps. Bear Stearns executives agreed...