One bright afternoon last week, at the Prada store on Fifth Avenue, two young women who appeared to share the same parents and the same attitudes about highly elective surgery, passed a baby and platform shoes back and forth between them.
In these times of stress, my thoughts, as if laced up with a pair of running shoes, sprint back and forth between woulda-coulda-shoulda and what-if.
After some back-and-forth, Horovitz accepted Moore's shoes.
The back-and-forth continues for weeks.
There is back-and-forth on this.
It's a back-and-forth conversation.
Say, for example, during that last part of the application process, where it's one-on-one, you're sitting in the room with the kid and he or she is talking and looking down at their shoes and rocking back and forth and not making eye contact.
The commitment to becoming a professional ballet dancer comes with a hefty price tag: There is the cost of shoes, tights, costumes, gas back and forth to the studio, technique classes, private coachings, summer intensive workshops -- and for the lucky few with natural talent at the right place at the right time -- a scholarship to study.
Sometimes, being attentive and responsive to a customer is enough - for instance, a shoe salesman who tirelessly runs back and forth from the storeroom so that a customer can try on a dozen pairs of shoes has demonstrated serious kindness simply by doing his job well.
He began to climb more slowly, seeing himself walk back and forth in the shoe store trying to feel his way into the shoes.
