Word: leathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the audience were wearing leather. It was Harvard. And these crooners were singing in honor of the College's 350th anniversary celebration...
...Hunt is a leather-faced cowboy who says he'd rather have a horse than a human as a friend. Every day he stakes his life and livelihood on that idea. He refuses to call what he does "breaking" a horse, claiming there is no word that adequately describes the relationship. His smile is a hard beam that penetrates the dustiest corral. Raised on a farm in the days of horsepower, Ray tells me he has picked prunes, fixed fence, driven heavy machinery and cowboyed -- anything to make a living -- but it was always the horse that remained dear...
...whose name has been synonymous with status and high fashion, it was a humiliating and humbling moment. Aldo Gucci, 81, former head of the Italian clothing and leather-goods company that bears his name, had pleaded guilty in January to evading $7.4 million in U.S. taxes, and last week he stood in a Manhattan federal court awaiting his sentence. "I feel very sorry, deeply sorry for what happened," said Gucci, in a halting, emotional voice...
Young Ralph was preoccupied with basketball, stickball and the exploits of Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, but he started showing a flair for clothes in his early teens. "The kids I grew up with were wearing leather motorcycle jackets like Marlon Brando," he recalls. "But at the same time I saw there was a collegiate side of the world. I was inspired by it. I was always very preppie." Klein remembers that Lauren cut a distinctive figure in the neighborhood by mixing olive-drab Army clothes with tweeds. At 15, Ralph got his first fashion commission: to design red satin...
...into the Willard in 1864, and the clerk, so used to the high and mighty, did not recognize the man who commanded nearly a million troops. As President, Grant would often wander out of the loneliness of the White House and come to the Willard, which offered him a leather chair in a secluded place in the lobby where he could watch the passing show. Even then he was pestered by people with petitions and pleas. He called these intruders "lobbyists," and the term stuck...