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...last week's celebration of the Sultan's 37th birthday, His Highness inspected his troops from a gold-upholstered Land Rover, while Gucci-shod women in traditional black robes looked...
...also be traced to the current troubles in Central America and the lingering concern for people who have vanished in Chile and Argentina. Luisa Valenzuela, an Argentine now living in New York City, caught the mood in Strange Things Happen Here (1979). From a droll story titled The Best Shod: "An invasion of beggars, but there's one consolation; no one lacks shoes, there are more than enough shoes to go around. Sometimes, it's true, a shoe has to be taken off some severed leg found in the underbrush, and it's of no use except...
...always so accommodating. A scant three hours before the premiere of Martins' setting of Stravinsky's Suite from Histoire du Soldat, Balanchine examined the costumes, pronounced them "awful" and threw them out. The dancers went on clothed in bits and pieces from the costume bins and shod in boots that Martins himself had spray-painted black an hour earlier. "He was right," Martins now says. "The costumes I had picked melted into the set." Looking back he observes, "Everything was a compromise, but I am better for it. I don't fly off the handle, or yell...
Colantuono and Wall both shod front emphasizing their GSA experience. But both struck a theme that can only reflect their frustration at having had to square off with Harvard so many times for concessions which, to the University, could only be considered miniscule. "Our first priority is overcoming the image of powerlessness," said Wall. Colantuono said the council could work only by helping students to "take control of [their] own lives...
...rare cases, people who have latched onto some status cannot be sure of how to flash the news to the world, and people who are watching cannot be sure who is dramatizing what sort of status with what symbol. Order Gucci loafers and you only risk winding up shod the same way as the boy who delivers them. A Cadillac today signifies nothing about the owner except that he might well pull in at the next Burger King. Incontrovertibly, any game has been seriously maimed when you can no longer tell who is winning or losing. The status game...