Word: shoes
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...country's economic growth in the past five years has flowed from the surge in foreign sales. For example, more than $20 billion in revenues made by U.S. airplane manufacturers comes from sales abroad, money that then finds its way into the cash registers of grocery and shoe stores and insurance agencies in the communities where the workers live. Corn growers bring more than $6 billion of cash into the country, scientific-instrument makers more than $12 billion. Contrary to the protectionist shibboleths, imports benefit the country as well: from cars to vcrs, the American consumer saves money because...
...another man, then breaks up with the male lover, woos him back and ultimately watches him die of aids might not sound like most people's idea of entertainment. Certainly no other current musical opens with a song called Four Jews in a Room Bitching, features a soft-shoe-dancing psychiatrist lilting about how "everyone hates his parents" or has two women characters cheerily introduce themselves as "the lesbians from next door." But then, only Falsettos, which capped off the Broadway season last week to wide critical acclaim, has music and lyrics by the quirky, quixotic, querulous and unquenchable William...
While some of Ferragamo's wedged shoes are sedate, others are fantastical, and a few are downright ugly. But even these, like a black-laced shoe with a prow toe shaped like a rhino's horn, work as sculpture if not as footwear. One wedged shoe made in 1938 is a kind of psychedelic homage to the raised Venetian chopines of the 17th century; it could easily have been worn by Elton John in concert...
...Ferragamo, the high heel was the pedestal on which he placed women. "The high heel gives a beautiful shape to the leg," he wrote. The crocodile uppers of a court shoe (a sort of dramatized pump) made for Marilyn Monroe in 1958 shoot back at a 45 degrees angle, resting on 5-in. stiletto heels. It was a pair of Ferragamo high heels that Monroe was wearing in The Seven Year Itch when the warm air from a subway grate famously raised her skirt. Ferragamo's shoes were sexy without being trampish. His come-get-me shoes were elegant...
...Duchess of Windsor (who, he said, had perfect feet) and Ava Gardner. He was an artist for hire who worked for the new royalty of the 20th century: movie stars and socialites. Such clients tested his ingenuity. To fulfill the request of an Indian princess, he once fabricated a shoe of hummingbird feathers. But Ferragamo asserted that he was designing shoes not for the personality of the customer but the personality of the age. James Laver, the influential English fashion theorist, wrote that all significant fashion shares three qualities: utility, status and seductiveness. Ferragamo's shoes satisfy on all counts...