As soon as I turned 13, she presented me with my
first tube
of cherry -
red lipstick and my
first pair of high heels — three - inch heels they were in those days, and I thought them not only uncomfortable but incredibly hideous — and from then on made me go to church thus
shod and painted, indistinguishable from the other eighth - graders whose arms hadn't had to be twisted.
If Scully's mentor and former partner,
Red Barber, was the soft - spoken, southern - accented master
of the homely analogy — «This game is tighter than a new
pair of shoes on a rainy day» — Scully brings to his work the perspective
of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps
first formed by the liberal arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II: «Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day - to - day.