Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...galosh has gone galumphing into oblivion, and in its place is the musketeer boot, the Robin Hood boot, the cossack boot, lined, unlined, fur-topped, made of fake leopard or silk faille or nylon mesh or even real leather. Office girls wear them to work at the slightest sign of inclement weather, carrying their shoes in a tote bag (the smarter ones keep a pair of shoes in their desk). For the evening, slippers are carried in jeweled reticules...
...Terror" was about it was horrified. The play dealt brilliantly with a pair of hopped-up punks who terrorize a subway earful of early morning riders. For an hour the hoods tease, insult and frighten the passengers. Yet no one dares do anything to stop them. Finally, as one leather-jacketed jackal torments a father with a sleeping child, a young soldier rebels. "Leave those people alone," he cries, and suddenly there is a knife in the punk's hand. The other passengers simply watch as the hood closes in on the unarmed soldier in the terrible crouch...
...Russian model that Yesalis saw, a hard leather cylinder attaches the artificial hand and forearm to the patient's upper arm. The plastic strap secured to the stump below the elbow contains two electrodes, each attached to two wires that proceed up the sleeve of coat or dress in a single cable. They lead to a transistorized power pack the size of a cigarette case, which may be worn under a man's shirt or a woman's blouse. Another wire leads back from the power pack, down the arm, to the artificial hand. Inside this hand...
Elsa Maxwell could not live without friends: "All I want is love from the world, and that is what I give it." Or enemies: "I go hell-for-leather. People are terrified of me. I can say anything. Isn't that dreadful? I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate...
Huston, of course, is a show in himself, as always. He wears black leather suits, white hunter's outfits and long striped muu muus. He has a tawny Anglo-Iranian girl named Zoë: with him. He has also made the happy discovery of raicilla, a 180-proof distillate of the maguey plant that is far more potent than tequila. "If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine," says Burton...