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Imagine a society in which only the affluent could buy their own shoes. The poor and a significant percentage of the middle class paid taxes to support a state-run distribution system which supplied shoes--a public shoe system, if you will...
Others would call From the sand in the party's shoe. A curmudgeonly Indiana native, he is tolerated more than he is loved. From grew up in South Bend, graduated from Northwestern University with a journalism degree and went to work for Lyndon Johnson in the war on poverty. An anomaly in Democratic politics -- he is neither pollster, nor consultant, nor academic, nor public official -- From is responsible less for crafting the leadership council's proposals than for selling them. From raised the money, organized the conferences, hired the experts and started 30 council chapters nationwide. "Al is the impresario...
Cumbersome, inefficient and corrupt, the Soviet economy functioned, such as it did, because it had its own internal logic. Moscow decreed the production of every tank, shoe and potato; every working-age person was supposed to have a job; and prices were stable. If the end result was not exactly according to plan -- a long-drawn-out failure, in fact -- at least the command system offered a coherent vision of what the plan...
...bygone film goddess whose camp theatrics provide the personal mythology of the gay prisoner brilliantly played by Carver. When life becomes awful, he escapes into reveries of scenes from her films. And when life becomes truly unsustainable, he joins her forever in a brightly lit world of soft shoe and smiles. The real star, as so often, is Prince, whose staging tricks are as spectacular as in his Phantom of the Opera. This time they serve a far better show...
...motives. Born in Santiago to a Cuban army veterinarian, he was arrested as a teenager in the 1950s for denouncing dictator Fulgencio Batista on the radio. He fled to Miami in 1960, fearing he would be arrested again, this time for openly defying Castro. He worked as a dishwasher, shoe salesman and milkman in Little Havana while editing an anti-Castro paper funded by Jose Bosch, the Bacardi rum magnate. Mas signed on with the aborted 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and once tried to outfit a B-26 aircraft with bombs to hit Cuba's oil refineries...