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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...

Author: By June Shih, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Right (Summer) Stuff | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

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...

Author: By June Shih, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Right (Summer) Stuff | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

Gulas and his non-hippie friends call the rubber sandals "Air Jesuses...

Author: By June Shih, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Right (Summer) Stuff | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit to Save the Earth: Sideshows Galore | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Worst Director | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

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