Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where do the top footwear tastemakers of the '90s stand vis-e-vis Earth Shoes? Manolo Blahnik, the pre-eminent European shoe designer, is an unabashed Earth Shoe fan: "It was the first shoe, [along] with the Jesus sandals, to make a social statement!" American shoe designer Kenneth Cole is another fan: "What was originally an antifashion statement 25 years ago has today become fashionable. They are a relaxed and comfortable alternative to other fashionable footwear...
Stride-Rite, the shoe chain, and the camera company Polaroid recently announced their plans to leave the city. Councillor Francis. H. Duehay '55 said more accurate information about the city's efforts to recruit business and chains is needed...
...generically suave illusionism of Mark Kalin and Jinger Leigh--also features an impressive trio of slow-motion acrobats called Human Design. The Tropicana's Folies-Bergere revue, freshened regularly since 1959, has a nicely erotic trapeze duo, the Cavarettas, a merger of Ringling Bros. with TV's Red Shoe Diaries...
...PAST 12 YEARS, ON THE SIDEWALK next to my company's Tokyo headquarters, an elderly gentleman, Harukichi Watanabe, ran a small shoe-repair stand. Secretaries as well as corporate executives would leave their shoes each day for repair. After the poison-gas attack, I noticed on my arrival at the building that his stand was closed and flowers and gifts had been left there. I was told he had been killed in the subway disaster. To my surprise, when I picked up my copy of Time, on your index page I saw a picture of Watanabe lying on the subway...
...friend: in the theater is a Cleopatra headdress worn by Elizabeth Taylor, who seduced and married Debbie's first husband, Eddie Fisher. It's all grist for Debbie's sweet obsession; she now has some 3,000 pieces. "Passionate collectors," she notes, "don't become unpassionate." When she divorced shoe magnate Harry Karl in 1973, she says, "he wanted me to sell my movie stuff and give him half the money. I told him, 'You can have the house, you can have the furniture, but you can't have my costumes.' So I kept my children and the costumes...