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...York Philharmonic's open-air concert near by. At lunch hour, regulars glide along the park's winding paths, lapping the joggers. Some of the joggers are in fact beginning to roll, and one skate manufacturer has come out with a "jogger" model-a blue running shoe with yellow racing stripes mounted on wheels. After all, skating uses many of the same muscles as running, burns a respectable number of calories and is easier on the knees...
...about two years ago, Joe revved up his hearse and cruised on to new adventures. He left his legacy, though, and so his little pizzeria, conveniently situated above Felix's Shoe Repair, still serves the worst pizza in town to a dwindling number of loyalists. If you want to eat in solitude, try Joe's but if you want to eat good pizza, go somewhere else. The subs, however, are pretty good, particularly the veal parmigiana. But the place just isn't the same without...
Beckett even wore pointed-toe patent leather pumps that were too small because he wanted to wear the same shoe in the same size as Joyce, who was very proud of his small, neatly shod feet. Joyce had been vain about his feet since his youth, when poverty forced him to go about Dublin in a pair of white tennis shoes, the only footwear he owned. It is impossible to know if Joyce was even aware of Beckett's slavish gesture, for his eyes were so weak that he saw very little. What is intriguing about this imitative gesture...
...have learned, as you yourselves will soon learn, that No Respect can be just as important as Respect--in terms of making sane career choices, for instance. While Respect can translate instantly into guest slots on the Hollywood Squares and Match Game '78, No Respect can make you a shoe salesman, or me. You had George Plimpton doing this up here last year. He gets Respect. He went to Harvard just like you. He plays a lot of golf. I don't play golf. I caddie for my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law the one who thinks...
Then there are her shoes. All dancers are meticulous about their slippers, so Gelsey is fanatic. A toe shoe is a rigid object. To get one of her 50 pairs in shape, she brushes Fabulon floor wax into the shoe to make it even harder. Since hard shoes make noise, she next pounds the stiffness out with a tinsmith's hammer. Then she sews on ribbons and bits of elastic. Done? Almost. Just before a performance she pulls the shoes on over socks, brushes them with fast-drying alcohol and removes the socks. Putting the shoes back on, she says...