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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 40 shops across the country that specialize in Earth Shoes, more and more shoppers-including such celebrities as Mark Spitz, James Coburn and Tony Curtis-are competing for limited supplies of clumpy footwear that defies most principles of shoemaking. Instead of sloping downward to the toe the heel of the Earth Shoe is approximately one-half inch lower than the forward part. The rubber sole, in turn, gradually thickens in the direction of the toe elevating the front of the foot and leaving the wearer balancing on his heels. "It's like walking barefoot on a soft, sandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Down at the Heels | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...problem with staging Kafka is that Kafka's realism is a tactile, not a visual one. K. is a faceless man in a Janus-faced world where you stub your toe on invisible rocks and hang your head against undetectable walls. It is a universe of paradox, people by bureaucrats, Chinese emperors and courts of law: all of which may or may not be mythical depending on whether you subscribe to them or not. To translate this state of affairs into performable drama is a challenge that Sanders and in some spots the Ensemble have barely missed meeting...

Author: By Alice C. Van buren, | Title: Kafka Staged | 1/15/1974 | See Source »

TENNIS: GAME OF MOTION by Eugene Scott. 256 pages. Crown. $14.95. Anyone suffering from tennis toe or tennis elbow should not buy this book. Even a swift shuffle through it will make them want to grab the nearest racket and rush to the court. It is the pictures that do it. Whether they show Rod Laver smashing a serve, Stan Smith straining for a backhand drive, or Billie Jean King pulverizing a forehand volley, the photographs communicate the power, grace and sheer ferocity of top-level tennis, in kinetic color and black and white. The supporting text is heavy with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christmas: From Snowy Peaks to Sizzling Serves | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

Vietvets spoke of "toe-poppers," "daisy cutters" and "dragon's teeth" -all antipersonnel maiming explosives that they had used in Viet Nam. Anthony Russo, who helped to make the Pentagon papers public, recalled that, as the war escalated, he once took a grenade to the computer room of the Rand Corporation. "I wanted to throw it in there," he testified. "Had I been younger, I think I would have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Chance to Explain | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

Columbia fumbled the kick-off and Harvard got the ball back on the Lion 12. Holt came back in and on third and seven tossed a short lob to junior halfback Steve Dart at the five. Dart took it in for the score. Tetirick's toe put Harvard on the half century mark...

Author: By Ronald W. Wade, | Title: Powerful Crimson Offense Bombs Columbia, 57-0 | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

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