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...hand Firebirds instead of the old '57 Chevy. They take pills and smoke a little dope and a few drop acid; but most of all they drink. They drink in bars or in alleys; beer after beer; shaking it hard to get a better lift. They wear Italian cut shoes and gaudy shirts and tight pants and they play basketball in Converse All-Stars with purple shoe-laces; an acquired habit from the blacks to the north. Downtown Chicago is virtually an unknown quantity; they buy at Lester's and Gasmans and the supermarts and the small delis...
...Field. The idea comes from Physicist Kurt Greenwood of the British textile industry's Shirley Institute in Manchester; he has been studying ways of reducing the static electricity built up by walking across carpets and other floor coverings. Greenwood knew that static electricity may be generated wherever a shoe rubs against a rug. His research had further established that the charge can persist for hours (particularly on some synthetic rugs in dry air) and that the shape of the charged area conforms to the shape of the sole and heel that created it. Those facts were of particular interest...
...said on Saturday that the defense didn't have the stuff to win many (read any) games, and I was clearly wrong, although Dartmouth may stick the other shoe in my mouth...
...antagonistic friendship often found in such films of Howard Hawks as Rio Bravo and Red River. Each member of the gang has sworn to share with the others, but as his companions scrounge for a meal-and sometimes get killed in the process-Drew keeps $100 stashed in his shoe. The bankroll makes his lofty moral principles a great deal easier to hold...
...reduced to a pulp. After careful investigation, the police established that there had been two murderers and identified them as brothers who lived in a neighboring apartment. The killers had dropped their victim repeatedly on the floor, struck him again and again with a woman's high-heeled shoe and bitten him several times. What was even more unusual, however, was the age of those involved in the case: the slayers were only five and two years old, and their victim was an eight-month-old infant...