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However, there are sandals and there are sandals. In Manhattan, Greenwich Village's cowhide standard will still raise eyebrows north of 59th Street; only on very special feet will they get by a doorman with class or a headwaiter with vision. But the introduction of the spaghetti strap and the low, more graceful heel has turned a little item into big business, earned fashion's acclaim and the blessings of women everywhere who have spent all the summers of their lives struggling into nylon stockings and old-style, cover-up pumps-all for the sticky sake of decency...
Some folks in Oklahoma City thought it was just one aggravation after another. One woman complained that her furniture was shrinking. Another said that her bra strap had snapped eight times in one day. A farmer north of town found his hens uninterested in such mundane matters as egg laying. And someone threatened to chuck a bomb at Mayor Jack Wilkes...
...sheriff's deputy is a pointedly jolly individual, known to joke and giggle while in the process of beating a prisoner with his five-pound strap or shoving him into the tiny black steam-heated solitary 'hotbox' cell. The only thing which seems to upset his routine of chuckling brutality is the presence of "Freedom Riders" (He manages to make it sound like an obscenity). He doesn't like...
...Russian model that Yesalis saw, a hard leather cylinder attaches the artificial hand and forearm to the patient's upper arm. The plastic strap secured to the stump below the elbow contains two electrodes, each attached to two wires that proceed up the sleeve of coat or dress in a single cable. They lead to a transistorized power pack the size of a cigarette case, which may be worn under a man's shirt or a woman's blouse. Another wire leads back from the power pack, down the arm, to the artificial hand. Inside this hand...
...barracuda side," she seems to have no real vanity about her appearance, willingly adopting whatever face best fits a role. But she admits that she "en joyed being glamorous" in Sweet Bird of Youth, and in the early acts of Strange Interlude she quite unnecessarily wears a chin strap, presumably to youthen herself...