Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like somebody with a shoe fetish getting a job at a shoe store," he says. "I used what I wanted and then turned in the rest." At first the drug gave Tarver energy for his moonlighting as a security officer. But later it began to confuse him. "I suffered large personality swings. Once I remember getting lost in a parking...
...faculty party, Lianna spots Dick frolicking in a sandbox with one of his female students. When, later in the evening, she accuses him of indefidelity, he neither admits to not denies the charge. But the thin trickle of sand as he removes his shoe confirms his guilt. Lianna leaves him and moves in with Ruth, her night-school psychology professor. It's that simple. One day she is married, the next she has a female lover...
...people who have vanished in Chile and Argentina. Luisa Valenzuela, an Argentine now living in New York City, caught the mood in Strange Things Happen Here (1979). From a droll story titled The Best Shod: "An invasion of beggars, but there's one consolation; no one lacks shoes, there are more than enough shoes to go around. Sometimes, it's true, a shoe has to be taken off some severed leg found in the underbrush, and it's of no use except to somebody with only one good leg. But this doesn't happen very often...
...mother, whom Tennessee always called "Miss Edwina," nourished the myth with illusory memories of a grand and gracious heritage. His father was a gruff and aggressive traveling shoe salesman, who, on rare home stays, taunted his son as a sissy and called him "Miss Nancy." His older sister Rose, an imaginative muse to Williams, tragically retreated into schizophrenia until a prefrontal lobotomy in 1937 immured her in a perpetual mental twilight...
...surprisingly well, ranging from the operatic soprano of Susan Larson (who sand io Oriando last year) to the amusingly gruff song-speech of Jeremy Geidt. And while the dancing is not going to put Tommy Tune out of work, there are some fine numbers, including an amusingly effeminate soft-shoe by Harry S. Murphy ("Dear Old Syracuse"), a terrific trio by Susan Larson, Karen MacDonald, and Marianne Owen ("Sing For Your Supper"), and a hilariously frantic improvisation by Thomas Derrah at the close...