Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article on lawyers was refreshing. As physicians are threatened daily by legal vultures from private, government and consumer sectors, I enjoyed seeing the shoe on the other foot...
...candor and forthright approach when they met for an interview in her teacher's studio. A recent convert to the world of dance, Gray confessed he had indulged in a few Walter Mitty fantasies of joining her onstage. With that, she reached down and pulled off his left shoe. "Good extension," she judged as she tugged at Gray's foot while the nonplused writer tried to stretch it. Did the young ballerina have any hope for the 38-year-old aspiring dancer? Proclaimed a Gelsey as graceful offstage as she is on: "It's never too late...
Then there are her shoes. All dancers are meticulous about their slippers, so Gelsey is fanatic. A toe shoe is a rigid object. To get one of her 50 pairs in shape, she brushes Fabulon floor wax into the shoe to make it even harder. Since hard shoes make noise, she next pounds the stiffness out with a tinsmith's hammer. Then she sews on ribbons and bits of elastic. Done? Almost. Just before a performance she pulls the shoes on over socks, brushes them with fast-drying alcohol and removes the socks. Putting the shoes back on, she says...
...that Cunningham coaches with the same intensity that marked his brilliant playing career (in eleven years with the pros he averaged 20.8 points a game). He rants so fervently on the sidelines that he is frequently rapped with technical fouls. In one recent game, Billy C. pulled off a shoe and pounded the floor á la Khrushchev to express...
French Department Film--The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, 377 Science Center...