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Images of the cowboy are never difficult to find in America. Though Hollywood has virtually stopped manufacturing oaters-and counteroaters like Hud-young producers and directors labor on their outer-space operas shod in $1,000 hand-made cowboy boots. Factory hands outfit pickup trucks as high-ridin', gas-guzzlin' quarter horses: shotguns are displayed in the rear windows, and western music yips through the air conditioning. Whether the collars be blue or button-down, frontier chic is a perennial fashion. Our conviction that the cowboy was an enviable individualist in denim persists like a psychic saddlesore...
Never has Washington seen such an army march down its old avenues.the soldiers clad in pinstripes and shod in Guccis. Not in all U.S. history have such unusual political alliances been formed as those now taking to the barricades against Ronald Reagan's budget cuts. From church basements and corporate boardrooms, tens of thousands of special pleaders, lobbyists and their experts have marshaled to do battle for their special causes. It is Chautauqua, the circus, a Greek drama of a thousand acts, running from dawn to midnight, from Capitol hideaways to the Pentagon...
...cast up by the tide, an urchin messenger, shod in jogging sneakers, knocks on Oliver's door. This is Carrie (Gilda Radner), a child bride of 22 going on eleven. She heartbrokenly announces that Nora is having an affair with her husband Peter. Peter (David Rasche), a multimillionaire, "is rich for a living," and he must have spied Carrie from his private jet, since he could scarcely have been smitten by her at Polaroid range...
During the 1960s and '70s the most creative and persuasive advertising poured Dout of the small, freewheeling agencies known as ad boutiques, like Carl Ally or Delia Femina, Travisano & Partners. Gucci-shod zanies in tinted glasses and with-it jargon dreamed up "the white wine that goes with any dish" for Blue Nun and Braniff's pastel-colored jets and Pucci-clad stewardesses. But these days the modest shops along Madison Avenue are once again the big agencies. Says Ed McCabe, president of the onetime boutique Scali, McCabe, Sloves "The giants are doing more good work than ever...
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...