Pictures of shoes were popping up all over: Michael Kors sandals in Sarasota, Florida; Minnetonka moccasins in Seattle; Nike Classic Sweet Low Canvas in the middle of Pennsylvania.
Sipping agua de Sevilla (whiskey and other things), we listened to one flamenco singer after another, watched couples spontaneously stand to dance the Sevillana -- in the aisle between the tables, on the little wooden stage where the musicians sat and along the bar under the hanging plants and low canvas ceiling.
He wears a red visored cap, a blue canvas shirt, Levi's, and boots with wide low heels.
And yet each chapter has its fine moments: "I sit all afternoon in a low-slung canvas chair and keep still because I can hear the blue heron tracking mice through pond grass".
Danny Biasone, who introduced the 24-second clock, and Grady Lewis, who came up with the low-cut canvas sneaker, are being considered for induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
Heathrow served 60,000 passengers in its first year; it will process more than 67 million in 2008, so the scale of operations militates against a low-security canvas city.
In a hotel building basement on 35th Avenue, it had nine tables, separated by nets and low-slung canvas barriers, and a yellow hardwood floor similar to a basketball court.
Grady Lewis, a former salesman with Converse who developed the low-cut canvas basketball sneaker, has been nominated for election to the Basketball Hall of Fame, along with Arnie Risen, a quick 6-foot-9-inch center during the National Basketball Association's early days.
NOTES: HALL OF FAME Biasone and Lewis Considered for Hall Danny Biasone, who introduced the 24-second clock, and Grady Lewis, who came up with the low-cut canvas sneaker, are being considered for induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
These acrylic skins lie low on the canvas -- the artist calls them "keloids," but they are less like random scar tissue than cicatrices, the tribal marks that are the result of cutting flesh and filling the incisions with wood ash.
(The chronology of his career in the catalogue includes something I have never seen before: multiple entries for auction records, including the $49m paid by Malaysian partyboy Jho Low for one canvas from 1982).
