"I'm going to do a soft-shoe, " she said, shuffling off stage.

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An elegant mid-tempo ballad, the song conjures images of a lamp-post-lined avenue, with Gene Kelly performing a soft-shoe at one end and Bogart and Bacall making out at the other.

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Bend over to tie your shoe and the Nao goes soft and wide, preserving both your night vision and its battery life.

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After more than a year of development on the new shoe line, Volcom brought together between 50 and 100 of its top retail accounts and did a soft launch in California and New York.

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In fact, excellent soft jerky is widely available in Asia, yet for some reason in this country we insist on the texture of shoe leather, with the convenience store bagged varieties giving jerky a bad name.

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