Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When President Reagan refused last summer to impose quotas on shoe imports, he stressed the importance of free trade. But he also promised that the White House would take action against unfair trading practices by foreign countries. In December the Commerce Department initiated a complaint charging that Japanese semiconductor manufacturers were selling products in the U.S. market at prices below the cost of production, a practice known as dumping. That triggered an investigation by the International Trade Commission to determine whether U.S. makers of the 256K DRAM chips commonly used in computers and other electronic equipment had been injured...
...appalled and angry at the window display I witnessed at the Vision House in Harvard Square last night. There are trash cans in the window and stuffed in one trash can is a woman's body with only her upturned legs visible. Hanging from her high heeled shoe is a pair of eye glass frames. I can't for the life of me see any connection between the inferred violence and eye glasses. After seeing someone raped, murdered, or mutilated and stuffed in a trash can, why would I want to buy eye glasses!? I spoke with the manager...
...taken deep into the bowels of the Ministry of Information a bureaucratic, Leviathan institution no doubt based on Orwell's Ministry of Truth. A fastidious technician is clambering over an enormous teletype machine while in pursuit of an equally enormous, noisy fly, which he dispatches with his shoe. The fly falls into the machine, and causes it to type the name "Buttle" instead of "Tuttle" on one of its printouts, triggering a chain of events which we follow throughout the first part of the film...
...reading gives you the hives or makes important limbs fall off your body, the movie is still worth seeing. The acting is uniformly excellent, with Whoopi Goldberg a shoe-in for an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Goldberg has the perfect face for Celie, capable as she is of transforming the worried lines of meekness and suffering into a stiffled grin and a twinkle in the eye that belie convert amusement and joy. Also creating a reserve of depth is Adolph Caesar as Mister's father, the swaggering, comic fool who sires the story's principal tyrant. In fact, some...
...most interesting and enlightening features of my pre-Christmas season has been the 1985 Child World Christmas catalogue that stuck to the sole of someone's shoe and ended up in the middle of my room...