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...Shoe Business...
...MADE LOVE LIKE HE WORKED ON THE street -- tender as a jackhammer." So goes one of the loonier entries in the RED SHOE DIARIES, a woman's account of her steamy affair with a construction worker who moonlights as -- no kidding -- a shoe salesman. The woman (Brigitte Bako), torn between the hunk she's secretly sleeping with and the hunk she's engaged to, has just committed suicide, and her fiance reads the journal after her funeral. That pretty much wraps up the plot of this Showtime movie, directed by soft-core wizard Zalman King (9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid...
...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...
...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...