Word: leathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the plane?" asks a wide-eyed schoolgirl. "It's so big." Murmurs her friend: "All those people." The exact death toll of 269 has not been made public to the Soviet people. "More than 200, I heard," offers a young man wearing an imitation-leather jacket. But even as he shakes his head, he echoes the brazen attitude that has been the official response of his country: "Such a plane should not have broken through our borders...
...channel's masterstroke is Mouseterpiece Theater, in which George Plimpton, doing a droll parody of Alistair Cooke, introduces classic cartoons from an overstuffed leather chair: he annotates a Donald Duck short called Straight Shooters by reciting a Baudelaire poem in French to explicate Donald's existential behavior. About 40% of the channel's programming is mined from the Disney library, a Golconda of 60 years of treasures that include 450 cartoon shorts, 561 episodes of The Mickey Mouse Club, 75 episodes of Zorro ("He makes the sign of the Zeee!") and 200 never-before-syndicated hours...
...Logan, 29, breezed through the doors of the Ar cadia Outpatient Surgery Inc. in Arcadia, Calif. Within an hour, she would undergo surgery to remove a lump of scar tissue from her breast. Logan snapped a plastic name band on her wrist, took her seat on a soft, brown leather sofa and began thumbing through a magazine. Hers was not going to be a long stay: a quick (55 minute) visit to the lemon-yellow operating suite, a brief rest in an equally cheerful recovery room, and then on her feet and out the door by 1:30 p.m. "This...
...Tokyo's Yoyogi Park every Sunday, groups of momentarily rebellious adolescents come to perform a strange exhibition. They grease their hair into ducktails and put on black pegged pants and leather jackets, or else polka-dot crinoline skirts, and they group around tape-deck machines and dance to rock 'n' roll: boys with boys, girls with girls. In Japan it is always the group, even in rebellion. The spectacle is strangely sweet...
...York last week, a seminar on the New Music drew 3,000 registrants, triple last year's attendance, when the sounds were still percolating in urban clubs. Along with performers sporting exploded haircuts, leather earrings and unisex makeup, the execs celebrated rock's sizzling summer with predictions about an even more lucrative fall. Said Organizer Tom Silverman of independent Tommy Boy Records: "People are all psyched up here. It's a changing of the guard. Instead of preaching, even the white-beards are listening." What they are hearing right now is bound to keep their toes...