Word: sandalls
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...seasons ago swept the Continental set off their cramped feet; slow to cross the sea, the shoe was introduced to the U.S. only last fall by Designer Herbert Levine, was instantly copied in every color in real and ersatz fabrics from Monterey to Montauk Point. Strictly speaking not a sandal except to the industry, the Chanel model spurred what Stylist David Evins calls "the less-shoe look," was such a staggering success on the market that even barer versions seemed worth...
...days later, the museum opened to the public. Back were the sandal-schleppers in ponytails, the docents lecturing groups of housewives, the high-schoolers and collegians scribbling notes religiously. "Are you going to describe only the paintings you like?" one asked another. It was just as if they never had been away...
...great deal else. Harvard people, as a rule, buy the bulk of their clothes at home and have their other necessities -- food, shelter -- provided for them by the University. So most of the things they buy in Harvard Square are, roughly speaking, luxuries. There are tobacconists, banks, bookstores, sandal shops, motorcycle dealers and bookstores...
Across the silent ages, these small treasures are the voices of a people both busy and devout: ivory angels carved on a comb, a double lamp in a twin-tailed bronze dove, a polka-dotted leather sandal, a rabbit nibbling round fruit on a woven wool square. Textiles-wall hangings for tombs, shirts and coats for the dead-form perhaps the highest level of Coptic art, and the hot, dry desert climate has preserved some of the best examples: representations of everyday occurrences, proud portrayals of heroic scenes, and obedient evocations of saints and holy acts...
Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller settled at Big Sur in 1944, found it a place "of grandeur and of eloquent silence," and attracted a group of pre-beatnik sandal wearers of all sexes, who gathered evenings for drinks and folk dancing at Nepenthe, once the house of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth but now the region's most famous and almost only tavern, run by an intellectual refugee from San Francisco named Bill Fassett. Then came another brand of fugitive to Big Sur's beauty, such as retired Editor-Publisher William L. Chenery. ex-Diplomat-Journalist Nicholas...