Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film, overexposed and grainy as a newsreel, and by a cast of amateurs whose faces wear the perfect unpreventable authenticity of faces in a crowd. Pauline Murray, who plays the nurse, is a professional, but she skillfully conceals her training behind features as natural and untidy as an untied shoe. At every point in this picture, art conceals art so responsibly that fantasy , takes on the force of history...
...years ago, at a mere 47, I decided that I must buy a new pair of patent leather dancing shoes-in itself a rather daring decision. Trying to make small talk with the clerk, I remarked that the shoes I was replacing had lasted ever since my college days. "Yep," he replied, "you can get a lot of wear out of this kind of shoe." And then, as he fitted the shiny new shoes to my middle-aged feet: "You're buying your last pair right...
...There are no deep psychological reasons," a girl without pierced ears said. Then she took off her shoe and held it carefully in her left hand. "No deep reasons...
...Thrill of Showing Off. The tastes of the audience, which ballots by mail for the winners (average weekly mail: 9,000 cards), are shifting. Going out of popularity are one-man bands, soft-shoe dancers, Dixieland, harmonicas and stringed instruments; coming in strong are folk singers, guitars, guitars and guitars. The Hour still has its share of artists who play rhythms with fire extinguishers, punching bags, bones, bicycle pumps, balloons, spoons, glasses and bottles-naturally, Geritol bottles...
...Shoe. The object of supreme adoration was the bound foot itself. It was caressed with an intensity and ingenuity that often make this volume read like a Chinese Kinsey report. The cult of the lotus inspired a corollary cult of the shoe. Many a young man slept with a slipper that belonged to his beloved-indeed, an elderly Chinese ambassador to Moscow made no secret of the fact that he carried a trunk of tiny shoes and, as Levy puts it, "privately amused himself with them...