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...Grad Partnership, forming Walker/Grad Inc. By then, however, the recession was causing such sharp cutbacks in new construction that few jobs were to be had. But Walker noticed that retailers kept on building new stores and remodeling old ones. He broke into the then staid field by refurbishing the shoe department of the Henri Bendel store in Manhattan. The result was so bright and tasteful that other merchants noticed it, and Walker suddenly found himself in demand. He now employs 35 people and does more than $15 million worth of store projects a year. In the U.S., his chief clients...
...blacks prey primarily on the whites not for racial reasons but because they are convinced that the old people have money stashed away somewhere -hidden in old shoe boxes, tucked under mattresses. The young hoods operate in raiding teams of three or four, or as many as ten. Typically, they have a morning "shape-up" in a local schoolyard to plan what they call a "crib job," because it is as easy as taking money from a baby...
Servants of the czars used roe of lesser quality to polish up the royal shoe leather, while their masters downed the finer grades with vodka. Today Russian caviar commands princely prices in leading restaurants (up to $20 an ounce) and graces gourmet tables the world over-though rarely in the Soviet Union. Because of Moscow's need for hard currency, most of the 96 tons of gray-black sturgeons' eggs it produces annually are exported, bringing $5.9 million annually to the Kremlin's coffers but leaving little chance for the ordinary Russian to enjoy his national delicacy...
...post-war Vienna provide a perfect backdrop to the machinations of Welles's demonic opportunism, and the expressionist camera angles and bizarvesets sets create a disturbing sense of moral disorder in this divided city. Only Welles could turn a simple shot of a cat licking a man's shoe into a unforgettable avatar of terror and corruption...
Just the other night this happened in Winthrop House, which is usually so crowded around the dinner hour that you need a shoe horn to get in, when suddenly Bob Baggott swooped in from behind the salad bar and jumped on the glass. First down, Harvard...