Word: sneakers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comedy CD, Taste This, was the ostensible reason for DeGeneres' visits with David Letterman, Rosie O'Donnell and Conan O'Brien, but the sitcom star reserved her vigor for teasing--and testing--audiences with what has become the Grand Question of the TV season: Will Ellen Morgan, the sneaker-loving, jewelry-avoiding bookstore manager that DeGeneres plays on her ABC series Ellen, soon realize that for her, the world will hold only Ms. Rights...
Times may be changing. Sheryl Swoopes, a star at Texas Tech, and now a guard/forward on the U.S. Olympic team, has a Nike sneaker named after her: Air Swoopes. She's the first woman with such a contract. "I'm still trying to find words to describe how I feel about that," she says. "It's an incredible feeling when you walk into a store and see your shoe. And you hear a little girl asking not for a pair of Air Jordans but a pair of Air Swoopes...
...Kukoc of Croatia, Georghes Muresan of who-knows-where (not to mention Anthony Mason of Miami) all standing sternly, introspectively, for a tired old song they hear night after night? As the national anthem strikes up before every National Basketball Association game, the trash-talking, the rivalries and the sneaker contracts all fade into the background as the players appear to become consumed, if only for a moment, by their national pride. Television cameras--on the rare occasions when the anthem is televised-- zoom in for tight close-ups of the young men, evoking images of battle-weary soldiers going...
...especially in Die Walkure. Tall, handsome, heroic in gesture and carriage, she should make an ideal goddess. But with her bulky breastplate and helmet and huge skirt, she looks like the typical porky Wagnerian. The Rhinemaidens are decked out in biker gear, the dwarf Alberich wears one bright green sneaker. A reference to the Green movement? Who knows...
...time, the boot trend kicked Nike stock down more than 40%.) But last week Timberland stock dropped from 83 1/4 to 71 5/8 in two days before closing the week at 73. A report in Barron's suggested that the stock was overpriced and noted that Nike and other sneaker makers were rushing out their own lines of rugged footwear...