Lakshman's father, unshaven, exhausted from the eleven-hour flight from Delhi, and so dazed that he had a slipper on one foot while the other was bare, asked them to come in.
Heading down Blue Hill Avenue, Mr. Affleck took a detour by the Silver Slipper, on Washington Street, a diner where one scene takes place, and greeted the owner, Jeffery Hernandez, who also seemed unsurprised to see him.
Dad was barefoot on one foot and wore a foam-rubber slipper on the other.
Gillard, of course, has her own strategic interests here as well — to keep Slipper on her party's side — but in the process she got everyone talking about something much more important.
He barely looked up from his polishing machine when I put the gaping slipper on the counter, smiled a greeting and tried to engage him over the roar and rattle of the spinning wheels and brushes.
You'll find that if you press pause, right there, at that moment and in that position, you could slip a pair of Louboutins on them, easy as anything, like a glass slipper on Cinderella.
