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...magician who worked with feet. He well understood the talismanic power of shoes, their ability to enchant and arouse, to dazzle and intrigue. He created shoes that were walking fantasies. But at the same time he was a craftsman who understood how a pair of ill-fitting shoes can ruin a day and how a pair of clunky shoes can make a duchess feel dowdy...
Other pieces of Expo have altogether different ambitions; they are neither good nor bad, exactly, but something else -- Disneyish. The Saudi pavilion, a fake Arab ruin into which a fake nomadic hovel has been inserted, is like a second-rate SITE rip-off -- except that SITE actually designed it. The South Pacific pavilion is a compound of grass huts (or was -- it burned down last week, but is to be rebuilt promptly). New Zealand's conventional steel-and- glass facade gives way at one end to a rugged Pacific promontory, complete with recorded ocean noises, artificial stones and plastic seabirds...
...relevance (not mention the accuracy) of the quotes Counter and Reid used in their letter? They are used to imply, not too subtly, that the Jews have such serious problems that we don't know what to do with them; they complain all the time and attempt to ruin every attempt to improve race relations...
...learned an important lesson from World War I: It's not a good idea to demand reparations from losers. That can only ruin the economy of an already-devastated country and build militant nationalist sentiment out of which a stable government is unlikely to emerge...
...task force's] plan, as it stands, would greatly increase the reticence of some students to go through the [disciplinary] process, and would severely abate the students' right to an approachable Ad Board," Heinicke said. "The stigma associated with rape can ruin the social and academic reputation of the person involved...