Word: shod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beckett even wore pointed-toe patent leather pumps that were too small because he wanted to wear the same shoe in the same size as Joyce, who was very proud of his small, neatly shod feet. Joyce had been vain about his feet since his youth, when poverty forced him to go about Dublin in a pair of white tennis shoes, the only footwear he owned. It is impossible to know if Joyce was even aware of Beckett's slavish gesture, for his eyes were so weak that he saw very little. What is intriguing about this imitative gesture...
...Well-shod feet: Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing continues at the Shakespeare Company Theatre, Thursday and Saturday...
...they encounter in the newspapers old adversaries from the Kremlin or East Germany or Cuba. For 31 years Dick Helms fought the silent war with terrorists, killers, subversives, guerrillas and power maniacs who would have smashed their way to authority. Crisp handkerchief tucked in his glen-plaid breast pocket, shod in Ivy League loafers, Helms stayed a step or two ahead of them all. He was faster, sharper and, yes, at times more brutal. If he had not been he would have been fired...
...night. The figures come swirling together, "sharing energies" as Borg puts it, only to unmask themselves after the encounter and whirl apart. In "Plot," more obvious parody accompanies a more explicit depiction of the relationships between the characters. A pair of female clowns performs whenever a male clown, shod in huge flippers, blows on his horn. Two strolling figures enter and, by depriving the trumpeter of his supporting props, leave the women free from their male-dominated roles. "Sunday morning...undone" also depends on audience recognition of a familiar setting and roles. As the curtain goes up, choreographer Liz Lurie...
...city last week: "The foreign observer immediately notices the amazement of the young revolutionary soldiers who look like hillbillies in front of an Ali Baba cave that still spews diverse riches and gadgets from an essentially American and Japanese consumer society. Drab, in uniform without decorations or grade, shod in rubber-thonged sandals, they are visibly astonished by these elegant, made-up young women, by these people their age astride Hondas. Also incredulous are the people of Hanoi, who for 20 years have lived in austerity, when they see in their newspapers pictures of the store windows of Danang...