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Minister Farrakhan's performance, playing to a packed house, rose through Washington's sweet October air and bounced off satellites. Farrakhan banged on the American mind with a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom: Mumbo jumbo will hoodoo you. He went on about obelisks and the intricate, unintelligible meanings of mystical, pseudo-Pharaonic numerologies. He sounded by turns menacing and Rotarian: a salesman in a sharp bow tie, the hallucination of Mussolini channeling Booker T. Washington. Behind him postured his son from the Fruit of Islam, in sunglasses and paramilitary Graustark...
...looked a lot different from today's students, wearing our plaid skirts, baggy sweaters, and penny loafers to class. When we went to Boston it was silk stockings, heels, a dress, even hats. Underneath it all we wore girdles...
...stiletto heel's earliest ancestor, the chopine, a wooden clog that could reach stilt height. Later, a more narrowly heeled shoe for women emerged during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. And in the eighteenth century, the French began their fashion influence with lovely decorated leather or silk shoes on high heels set under the arch of the foot...
...have to squeeze the Chinese, get them to sign on. Add India, Southeast Asia, Latin America. And if you are going to spend the money to develop those markets, you'd better go with a full caravan. You can't be like Marco Polo and say, 'Oh, you like silk, do you? Well, we left that behind. We'll go back and get some and see you in a couple years.' No, you've got to be an all-encompassing media company. And, for that, you need management and creative talent, in about that order...
...afriend occasionally goad others into performingfor them. "Sometimes my friend 'Hee-Haw' and Ilure unsuspecting people on IRC into privaterooms to have fake netsex. It's really funnysometimes, the shit people are into. 'Hee-Haw'either pretends to be a jock or a drag queen witha read silk kimono, fuzzy mules and a cigaretteholder. Of course, they could be faking at theother...