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BIEGERT: To me, alternative meanslistening to some kind of aboriginal shoe-weavingmusic or something phenomenal and totallydifferent like Javanese gamalon music. Oh, butwell, that's World Music...
...show repair store here. he liked being around "young people, smart people, all sorts of kinds of people, poor people, rich people, all the happy people. "He spoke only Greek, worked three jobs simultaneously, saved money. On Saturday and Sunday nights he worked in Harvard Square's Felix shoe Repair, then located in the Massachusetts Avenue lot occupied toddy by Gnomon Copy. In 1969 Christos bought Felix Shoe Repair from the grandson of the original owner...
...heroic to his wife. Frequently away on military duty, at home he began turning Fergie into a golf widow as he pursued his passion for the sport. Said Anne Fernley, a London housewife: "It's a pity, really. They're a nice couple with nice children." Dudley Hicks, a shoe-shop manager in the capital, disapproved. "They have a position to uphold," he said. "They should have stayed together for the children...
...growing urban black underclass. Most of the blacks who talked into Terkel's tape recorder do not think they will ever be five-fifths American. Joseph Lattimore, 50, a Chicago insurance broker, describes himself as typical. "Being black in America is like being forced to wear ill-fitting shoes," he says. "Some people can bear the uncomfort more than others. Some people can block it from their mind, some can't. When you see some acting docile and some acting militant, they have one thing in common: the shoe is uncomfortable. It always has been and always will...
General Motors finally dropped the other shoe. Two months after announcing that it planned to eliminate 74,000 jobs and shut down 21 plants, the leading U.S. automaker offered some details. At the same time, GM reported a $4.5 billion loss in 1991, an all-time record for any company...