Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate last Wednesday, six Democratic candidates for state representative in Cambridge's 27th and 28th districts found they agreed on yet another issue: The November races for the Massachusetts State House will be far from a shoe-in for incumbents...
DOWNSIZED BY THE DIRECTOR In his documentary The Big One, anti-corporate crusader Michael Moore visits Nike CEO Phil Knight to challenge the shoe company's use of cheap Indonesian labor. In the film Knight seems evasive, edgy and ultimately tripped up by Moore's relentless interrogation. But did the filmmaker unfairly tailor Knight's appearance? In an effort to wipe the treadmarks off his reputation, Knight has put outtakes on Nike's Website www.nikebiz.com) There Moore, who comes off as an attack dog in the film, is heard purring to Knight, "I honestly think you're the good...
...nurturers and helpmates? I don't think so. A yuppie dad I know puts Junior in the Snugli, hits the gourmet market, lights the grill, and then boasts of fixing dinner and tending baby. Poke a superdad in the middle of the night and quiz him on his kids' shoe sizes, their birthday-party preferences or Sara's science-fair entry. Tops, he nails two out of three...
Moore decided to deal. He couldn't remove anything from the movie, he told Weinstein, but if Nike were to build a facility in Flint, Mich., he'd add a new scene. Heartened, Weinstein whipped out a notepad. Would that be a shoe factory or a warehouse? Moore, who can't keep a straight face at gunpoint, fought back tears of incredulity. Anything that'll employ 500 people at a livable wage, he replied. Weinstein promised to get back...
...first house call anyone can remember the Nike Lady making was to the Seinfeld set. Her impact was immediate--especially on the show's star, who apparently had an unambiguous sense of entitlement. Seinfeld's appetite for free sneakers became legendary. His office overflowed with shoe boxes, and one ex-writer remembers Jerry emerging "like Evita, tossing extra sneakers to the staff." In time the staff members too became hooked, and for them Tracy provided a catalog in which they could check off whatever they wanted. "It was everything--running shoes, hiking boots, sandals. People were taking up extreme sports...