Word: stilettos
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...