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...were heroic: beautiful, sexy, rich and independent. They were women on the move, and I wanted to be just like them. At a time when earth-mother chic was just beginning its resurgence, I wanted elegance. My friends begged their parents for Birkenstocks, while secretly I hoped for red stiletto heels. I practised smoking everything from carrot sticks to toothpicks, hoping to find just the right nonchalant gesture to send a curl of imaginary smoke up past my face. I begged my older friends to teach me how to "slink...

Author: By Jessica Hammer, | Title: GROWING UP NOIR | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...even a slice-of-lice drama like Mamet's American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross--and you'll be pleasantly surprised. The villains in The Spanish Prisoner (like the war-games con men in Mamet's Wag the Dog script) dress well, speak softly and carry a silver stiletto. They kill for sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gamut Of Mamet | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...true Hollywood style, opposites attract and Marcy meets her match in Shawn (Jay Sanders) whom she at first suspects of bestiality (he's very affectionate with his dog). It's a meeting of working automaton in gray business attire and stiletto heels with a principled, home town, ex-journalist who "took the easy way out" to do the right thing...

Author: By Angma D. Jhala, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Task of 'Matchmaker' Trouble-Free in an Irish Disneyland | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

Your item on new styles for this fall [ARTS & MEDIA, Sept. 8] included Vogue editor Lauren duPont's remarks on shoes with stiletto heels. Her comment that "they're sleek and sexy; we will have to bear the pain" was ridiculous. Just who are the unfortunate "we" to whom she refers? I certainly have no intention of rushing out to buy shoes that would cause me both physical and financial damage. Let DuPont and her reflexologists take note: there is at least one potential customer out here who will be sticking with her comfortable flats, no matter what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 6, 1997 | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...first debate: "I've never discussed Whitewater, as I've told you personally. I'm not discussing Whitewater now." And then he went on to press Clinton on the Whitewater pardons. Dole delivered his broadsides with a hatchet and a scowl; the other guy with a stiletto and a smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RULES FROM 1996 | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

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