Word: shoes
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...later galleries in the Whitney show, and what you experience is a sustained conceptual flutter, a continual flickering between high and low, Mannerism and kitsch, Parmigianino and sleazerino. It's a strategy that makes his work radical and familiar at the same time, like an especially snappy new running shoe, which in any market is never a bad idea...
...present our driver’s license and our bags will get weighed, and if they’re overweight, we’ll have to pay a fee to account for the extra fuel that will be spent in order to lug our extensive library and Imelda Marcos shoe collection across the skies. But what of the unweighed excess that sits around so many Americans? Is it not unjust that Dartboard is persecuted so that the gluttonous can be left to go free...
...shoe collection is extensive,” smirks Putnam, the president of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals...
...Roland Jacquard, "they're apparently going after more than one plot and group." Two weeks ago, London Mayor Ken Livingstone said police had thwarted four separate plots "to actually cause mayhem and take life in this city." In Britain, a 24-year-old man, accused of conspiring with convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid, was formally charged last week. At the time of his arrest, the man - whom neighbors described as a quiet student working to become an Islamic cleric - was in possession of a small amount of explosives. He is charged with "unlawfully and maliciously" conspiring with Reid "and others...
...Mahdjoub, 29, were unavailable for comment. Italian authorities said warrants had been issued for five of his associates, and that three - two Tunisians and a Moroccan - had been nabbed in Milan. In Britain, police in Gloucester arrested Sajid Badat, a Briton of Pakistani origin whom unconfirmed reports linked to shoe bomber Richard Reid, serving a life sentence for trying to blow up a plane in 2001. Authorities believe Badat, 24, was connected to "the network of al-Qaeda groups," said Home Secretary David Blunkett. "We wouldn't have taken these steps if we didn't believe this individual posed...