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...building, one floor at a time, by grabbing onto successive balcony ledges. Later, he disarms an opponent with the fancy footwork he's displayed since his days as a People's Republic teen idol; it's the look-Mao-no-hands routine, in which he does a soft-shoe number on a bad guy's belly. Finally, Li has a face-off against another champion martial artist as he and Dacascos briefly battle it out inside a ring of fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tone Is Jet Black | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

...they have until the very end, and just when one of the guys—usually the good-hearted one—is pulling ahead and you think he is going to win, he turns around and waits for the other guy, who has a pebble in his shoe or something, and they finish together. My heart is warm. And my left arm is tingling...

Author: By Abraham R. Kinkopf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 40 oz. To Severe Indigestion | 3/13/2003 | See Source »

...feeling around the Law School is that the shoe may drop any day now,” one HLS professor says. “It is getting awfully late—and we have a capital campaign that needs to start in June...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law School Dean Search a Mystery for Curious Faculty | 3/13/2003 | See Source »

Bill O’Reilly, the frighteningly popular conservative pundit on the Fox News Channel, is fond of crusades against liberals, porn stars and thug rappers. His latest victim is the Pony shoemaking company. Apparently, the Pony Company hired porn star Jenna Jameson to appear in its shoe commercials, and is, according to O’Reilly, “hoping that hard core sex will lead to the purchase of sneakers.” O’Reilly would no doubt be shocked if he actually watched some of Fox’s own programming, including Joe Millionaire, which...

Author: By Erol N. Gulay, | Title: Boycotting the Boycotter | 3/11/2003 | See Source »

...Which is ironic, because Blahnik never intended to be a shoe designer. In 1970 he arranged, through a mutual friend, a meeting with Diana Vreeland, then editor of American Vogue. He showed her sketches of stage sets and his new hobby, shoes. She told him to surrender the stage for the shoes. So he did. His first foray into fashion was a collaboration with the groovy British designer Ossie Clark in 1971. The shoes?with straps of green suede and fake cherries?were perfect. The heels?each six or seven inches of unsupported rubber crepe?were not. The models wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Discipline of Manolo Blahnik | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

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