Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soillis, who runs the Felix Shoe Repair Shop underneath Joe's Pizza, has been fixing shoes since the age of 11; he is now 59. Originally from Sparta, Greece, he has been living in this country for the past 13 years. He still speaks with a pronounced accent. Felix does not read English; scribbled notes written to himself lie about his shop, "bouriges kori bourtgaks...
Though he acknowledged the greater efficiency of shoe factories, Felix condemned them for the low quality of their output...
Since he quit making shoes--with the exception of a few sandals here and there--the focus of Felix's business has shifted to shoe repair; he also sells accessory leather good such as purses and belts on the side, as well as some rather unique footwear. For $5, you can buy a pair of bicentennial red-white-and-blue-saddle shoes, for example. The reason they go for so little, Felix explained, is that trying to get rid of them...
...Bach Duet" (1974) pairs white-bikinied Rose Marie Wright and Kenneth Rinker. Halfway through JSB's cantata 78, Rinker spits, then, repeating a gesture used earlier as a joke on soft-shoe, grinds that spot on the floor with his toe. That shocked a friend--such an act treated as if just one more jitter/jiggle/jolt...
...lambasted the "filthy rich" and their tax-free foundations. He lashed the Eastern press and "the welfare rip-off artists." In an area where unemployment is 14%, he blasted the multinational companies for taking jobs out of the country. He blamed the Federal Government for not helping the shoe industry because it is "too busy busing little children in Springfield...