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...time he was 14, Ferragamo had his own shop, with six assistants. That same year he emigrated to Boston to work with a brother in a shoe factory. Disgusted with what he considered the clumsiness of machine-made shoes ("with a toe like a potato," he wrote), he journeyed to Santa Barbara and set up a shoe-repair shop with another brother. Soon he was making cowboy boots for early westerns. Cecil B. DeMille hired him to make fanciful sandals and leggings for his silent epic The Ten Commandments. At the same time, Ferragamo was studying anatomy at the University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shoes of the Master | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

...delicious. The vaguely dry ground beef bathed in once-powdered gravy, corn and perhaps some chopped carrots, topped with mashed potato. My first shepherd...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: All I Ever Wanted Was A Shepherd's Pie | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

...year-old taste buds still weren't very mature (Pizza Hut rated higher than four star restaurants in Chinatown), but once a sip of syrupy Coke had settled the last of the perfect gravy-con-carrot-beef-potato mixture in my stomach, they recognized a new, wonderful sensation...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: All I Ever Wanted Was A Shepherd's Pie | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

Twenty-five Mather residents sipped soda and munched on potato chips, cookies and cake as they set up their own political "party" last night...

Author: By Perry Q. Despeignes, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Students Gather, Watch Super Tuesday Results | 3/11/1992 | See Source »

Ganley describes the band's musical development between mouthfuls of potato chips. "We've had the same goddamned focus forever. We write music because we don't like what we hear on the radio, and we've just grown up. We're still thesame goddamned band." He turns to George. "Aren...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: A Band With a Mission--and a Bus | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

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