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...heavily used by suburban commuters. There, vans operated by Kwik Wash, a local laundry service, pick up the bundles. In the afternoon at the same stop, riders get the clothes back, clean and neatly folded. Cost: 85 cents per lb. If the program is a success, film processing and shoe repair may be next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SERVICES: My Beautiful Laundry Ride | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...Brien's in dey Vieux Carre, and you drink two o'those, you say, "Doucement!," start feelin' like a nutria gettin' whomped on dey head! And I tell you what - C'est vrai, babe! - Dey teach dat Scorpion Bowl how to sting! Put one o' dem in your shoe, you gon' holler...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

COMING OFF COPLEY STREET'S opulent row of brownstones and boutiques, my first impression was that I had stumbled into the backroom of an unkempt--but uppercrust--Kinney's shoe store. Behind me was an enormous cut-glass, iron trellised, oak door; tumbling up to the ceiling on my left and right was a staggered tier of oak shelves, randomly crowded with shoes. Two clues that it wasn't Kinney's: the shoes, chunked with ice and vaguely steaming socky odor, were obviously not for sale; plus, the oak door, creaking shut behind me, was gilt with the words "International...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...only beat the Brahmins, he joined them and established the Kennedy style: an irresistible fusion of the parvenu with a parody of the old-shoe aristocrat. As a movie-industry wheeler-dealer in the '20s, he introduced a bit of Harvard to Hollywood. But back East it was show business as usual, especially when he introduced his mistress Gloria Swanson to Rose. The high point of his social climb was undoubtedly the * ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's in 1938. "This is a helluva long way from East Boston," he told his wife during a weekend with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Power and the Glamour THE FITZGERALDS AND THE KENNEDYS | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Problem: People who say, "You go to Harvard, and you do `X'?" when `X' is something stupid like tripping on your shoe lace...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Bothersome Bits of Harvard | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

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