Word: stiletto
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...always turn away, sighing as I acknowledge the hopelessness of it all. Even if I ever managed to overcome my puritanical dismay at the idea of handing over half a month's rent for a pair of shoes, countless horror stories have convinced me that the signature Blahnik stiletto would cripple me within moments...
...politics, but Bush has been one of its chief advocates.) As a safeguard, "Really" (financed by the Republican National Committee but OK'd by the Bush camp) follows the trendy and insulting strategy of trying to make the hostile message seem nicer by having a chick wield the stiletto...
...Howls, raps and roars for Cerys (KER-ruhs) Matthews. The voice that leads Brit band Catatonia can be aptly described as Sylvia Plath on stiletto heels-part suicidal poet, part femme fatale. In any given moment her tone is lacerating, yet as diffuse as air breathed through reeds. An eclectic mixture of Beth Gibbons, Lucinda Williams, Julee Cruise and Fiona Apple, Matthews' voice is even more accomplished than the timbres of any of that quartet. Hers is a voice laden with overtones, complexity and luminosity, multi-faceted at times to the point of schizophrenia...
...level-headed mom, that's just what would have happened. Many parents would have instinctively tried to pull the wooden stiletto from Nathan's chest. But Lorri Earley, a trained nurse, saw the pencil throbbing rhythmically in her son's chest and knew where it had probably lodged. She knew that pulling it out could unleash a torrent of red that would bleed the boy dry in a matter of minutes. "There was no way we'd touch it," she told TIME...
...looked around me. The woman two rows over was wearing a purple pleather jacket, black tights and stiletto heels, with rhinestone-studded hoop earrings and a can of what I'm sure was aerosol hairspray. It was becoming increasing clear that attire was key; a point I apparently needed some work on. Jeans were a must, but your WWF T-shirt declared true allegiance to the fraternity--to wear anything else was simply bad etiquette. The T-shirts diverged into two categories: the c.1986, neon-yellow version with the image of the Incredible Hulk airbrushed across the front...