Word: shoes
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...defiant Moses. Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon - Rubinger photographed them all in unguarded moments, stripped of the trappings of high office. He catches Meir worrying about a pot on the stove; Menachem Begin on an airplane, bending over to help his wife put on her shoe; the great warrior Dayan gazing at his formidable father Shmuel with a mixture of reverence and rebellion...
...report that the rate of distracting Internet usage during class is astounding,” Dean of the Law School Saul Levmore wrote in an e-mail to the student body. “Several observers have reported that one student will visit a gossip site or shop for shoes, and within twenty minutes an entire row is shoe shopping.” While Harvard Business School tested a program that blocked students’ access to the Internet during their scheduled classes, the program is no longer in effect, due to glitches and complaints. According to Steven R. Nelson...
...hardship of wearing last season’s heels). The second-story peristyle provided the backdrop for gowned and tuxedoed couples to make dramatic poses between the arches, to see and be seen. Upstairs, a senior in a tight scarlet dress balanced on one foot to adjust her shoe as she stared at Albert Bierstadt’s 1863 “Lander’s Peak.” It was American manifest destiny at its finest: a ray of sunlight bursting through the clouds above a towering range of imaginary mountains. Her date slouched against a pillar nearby...
More than a cunning marketing concept, the red sole was a happy accident. While working on a prototype in his studio in his early designing days, Louboutin searched for a way to match the shoe to a colorful sketch. "Something was missing, and I couldn't figure it out," he remembers. "Then I realized that the black sole of the shoe was too dark." So he grabbed a bottle of red nail polish from an assistant who was doing her nails nearby and painted the soles. "It didn't take me long to learn from my customers that...
...about to stress-test China's manufacturing sector like never before--and could result in the shuttering of thousands of factories and cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs. Makers of low-end goods are already suffering. The Guangdong city of Huidong was home to 3,000 shoe factories at the beginning of 2007, but as many as 500 of them have closed over the past 15 months, says Li Peng, secretary of the Asia Footwear Association in Hong Kong. One-sixth of 44,200 textile firms tracked by the China National Textile and Apparel Council lost money last...