Word: leathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deft hand for funk, and her clothes for men and women look lived-in even when they are freshly pressed, like something hung on a wooden peg behind the back door. She works largely and most successfully in utilitarian fabrics: cotton drill, lining silk and, for the coming season, leather that seems to have been ridden over by a motorcycle gang on a rainy Sunday. Her lines are loose and simple, the detailing fine and witty and heavy on the pockets. The clothes are not remakes of hardy perennials like parkas and biker jackets, but revisions of them. Even...
...getting ready for combat. First comes the bellows, a smaller version of the fireplace variety, belted next to his body and held under his right arm (whence comes the name: Uilleann is based on the Gaelic word for elbow). The bellows replaces a Scotsman's lungs in filling the leather bag that drives the sound. The bag goes under his left arm; out of it and across his lap comes a collection of wood and brass tubes. Some of these are the drones, which sound continuously in the background; the others, called regulators, are activated by brass keys studded along...
DEEP IN the bowels of Widener, in the sub-sub-basement of "C" West--wedged in between crumbling biographies of Louis XIV, his mistresses and long-forgotten ministers of state--lies a small, burgundy leather-bound book that, so far as I can tell, does not appear in the main card catalogue or the DUC. On one of my many solitary trips to "C" West this semester, I discovered this tiny volume which eventually became the focus for a portion of my senior thesis...
During his time on the street, Marshall met and learned about Peter, Starchild and Bill, the three main protagonists in the student's recently completed 25-minute documentary film about the area's homeless, entitled "On The Street." Starchild is a leather-jacketed punk in his early twenties, who ran away from home when he was 14 years old. Peter is a schizophrenic. And Bill is an alcoholic who lives on the street with his wife...
First it was fancy sneakers, then stylish sunglasses. These days World War II- style leather bomber jackets, valued at up to $300, are the booty of choice for the discriminating young thief in the chilly Northeast. In Boston some 40 incidents have involved bomber jackets. New York City has also seen a rash of ) jacket crimes. But Newark has been hardest hit, with 78 jacket robberies in January alone, 56 of them involving deadly weapons. The Newark police have formed a special jacket unit, some of whose members don models from among the confiscated supply and walk the streets, hoping...