I didn’t buy the poster because of her feet. To be honest, my protestations of love don’t tell the whole story. I want to put my hands on my hips and say, “I’m aware of who Marilyn Monroe is, thank you.” But I don’t, because I’m grateful for what he didn’t say and he’s right about what people want to look at in a photo of the famous one. Van Winkle, whose crankiness sent her husband Rip scurrying up the mountain. Though those aren’t the words he’d use.īesides the extra cash, I’ll bet he likes getting out of the house, away from his nagging wife, a modern-day Mrs. She of the come-hither visage and the plunging cleavage. You know, the biggest sex symbol in history. He looks at me funny, like Lady, this is Marilyn Monroe we’re talking about, not some run-of-the-mill dame. Or if not at her knees, somewhere on that stretch down to her ankles. “They should have cropped it at her knees. Her toenails are painted the same dark shade as her fingernails and lips, squarish disks of color that draw my eye down to her feet and unify the portrait. “You don’t mean literally,” I joke with a nervous laugh, hugging my purse closer. As he takes the dimensions with his tape, he says forcefully, “They should have cut off her feet.” I see him at a job involving machinery, maybe selling chainsaws at Sears. The clerk who’s helping me looks to be retired, picking up a few dollars to supplement his Social Security, and old enough to have experienced Monroe when her moon of fame first rose, now so long ago. She is pigeon-toed, shoeless, and en pointe, her heels lifted off the floor, her weight focused onto her toes. The tulle of the costume spills out over the arms of the chair. In it she sits on a wicker chair, black emptiness behind her, and bends toward the camera at an angle that pulls her strapless ballerina dress away from her chest. I’ve taken some posters of classic movie stars to be framed at the hobby shop, and have laid a photograph of Marilyn Monroe out on a long blond table to be measured. “She was thinking that, after all, feet are the most important part of the whole person women, she said to herself, have been loved for their feet alone.” Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers.The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers.The car she was riding in was trying to evade the paparazzi but it was also discovered later that the driver of the car, who was also killed, had three times the legal limit of alcohol which likely contributed to the accident. In 1997, on August 31st, Princess Diana of Great Britain was killed when her car crashed into a pillar in the tunnel under the Pont de l'Alma bridge in Paris. The deadliest incident of domestic terrorism ever, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Michael Fortier were convicted of the bombing. The most disturbing images were of children - a daycare center was hit by the bomb. Murrah Federal Building in downtown - killing 68 people, injuring more than 680 others, and destroying one-third of the building. A truck bomb went off outside the Alfred P. In 1995, on May 19th, the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil - before 9/11 - took place in Oklahoma City. While the bomb didn't do what was planned (collapse the North Tower into the South Tower), it did kill six people and injured thousands of people. In 1993, on February 26th, a truck bomb exploded in the garage under the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union and Boris Yeltsin became President of the Russian Republic. In 1991, on December 25th, the Soviet Union flag was lowered and replaced by the Russian tricolor flag. Chapman was found guilty of murder and still remains in jail. Bonner was born, on December 8th, ex-Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in front of his home - the Dakota - in New York City. Add Matthew's birthday or the date he died to see a list of historic events
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