Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pedestrian is probably wearing sandals. They might be clunky, inch-thick corksoled ones with fat leather straps. Or, they could be inch-thick black rubber-soled contraptions, secured to the person's feet by brightly colored nylon straps...
These intrinsically unattractive shoes, designed mainly for comfort, have become the latest trend in footwear. Cork-soled Birkenstocks and rubber-soled Tevas are spotted on Harvard Square feet with increasing frequency...
FOREST OF THE AMAZON, Municipal Theater, Rio, June 1-21 Set to music by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, Forest of the Amazon is the story of a white goddess who falls in love with a rubber tapper, angering both the Amazon tribe that adores her and the forest itself. The ballet, described by choreographer Dalal Achcar as "a poetic fantasy," is an expanded version of one she originally created for Margot Fonteyn...
...Bela Lugosi's mad monologues in Glen or Glenda ("Bevare of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep!" he intones between stock shots of atom-bomb blasts and buffalo herds. "He eats little boys! Puppy-dog tails! Big fat snails!"); to Bride of the Monster's rubber octopus with a broken tentacle, which Wood stole from Republic Studios; to Lugosi's double in Plan 9, who is a head taller than the star (who died during the filming) and must cover his face with a cape; to the thespian exertions of 400-lb. ex-wrestler Tor Johnson...
IMAGINE TRYING TO SEIZE AN ELEPHANT THAT IS spinning overhead by grabbing onto three makeshift handholds the size of soup cans. Then consider performing this feat swaddled in a 255-lb. rubber suit, suspended in midair, with no net. It , was a comparable challenge that confronted the Endeavour astronauts last week when they rescued Intelsat, a 4.5-ton 17-ft.-long telecommunications satellite, from its useless orbit 230 miles above the earth. In a record 8-hr. 29-min. space walk, with the world rolling by beneath them, Commander Pierre Thuot, Richard Hieb and Lieut. Colonel Thomas Akers wrestled...