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...into this craftsmanship, we would not have a product." Indeed, most Tod's shoes require 120 different stages of assemblage, and each pair is made by hand and cut from a single hide so that the shoe's grain is consistent. The shoemaking process begins inside the patternmaking room???which Andrea refers to as the intelligence center?where a dozen engineers hunch over computer screens, carefully devising the patterns for each shoe?some entail as many as 70 different pieces. Down the hall, the modelist carves up each style's last by hand, a technique few manufacturers actually have...
...duplicity of man. I have met no one, with the possible exception of Charles de Gaulle, who so distilled raw, concentrated will power. He was planted there with a female attendant close by to help steady him (and on my last visits to hold him up); he dominated the room???not by the pomp that in most states confers a degree of majesty on leaders, but by exuding the overwhelming drive to prevail...
...feuds with local political writers, charging unfair treatment. At times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which supported Spellman during the election, does seem to delight in baiting her. Publishers have also felt her wrath; she refused to meet again with some after they failed to stand when she entered the room???"not for me, but for the office...
...other extreme of the house is Walter Kerr's study, where 16 theater seats are screwed permanently into the floor; there he shows old slapstick silent films to guests ("Walter thinks nobody should have to be adorable right after dinner," says Jean). The adjacent living room???like every other room in the house, half the niches and all the floors?is filled with books, everything from Boccaccio to Beerbohm, plus a slim volume called Per Piacere, Non Mangiate Le Margherite (Please Don't Eat the Daisies). In the room next door, a television set peers out from the interior...
...your trip." A sandy-haired man starts answering her verbally, shows a cinema as he talks. At intervals the lights in the drawing-room are turned on. The narrative is broken with comments or explanations. Out of this simple framework is projected onto the little screen in the drawing-room???and onto the great screen in the theatres?as exciting a travel picture as ever was made...