Word: leathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been forced to queue up outside. Carla Fendi, one of five sisters who run the family's fashions, furs and luggage firm, predicts that sales will be up 20% over last December led by bestsellers "with the style and flair," like gold lace blouses $600 apiece. Gucci has leather jeans at $500 a pair, while Doney's café on the Via Veneto is finding buyers for a $100 wicker basket holding only a bottle of champagne, a toy dog and a small package of chocolates...
...reprinted in magazines and newspapers across the country. A few years later political cartoonist Thomas Nast drew a Santa Claus for Harper's Illustrated Weekly in line with Moore's characterization. The caricature depicting a round, bearded figure with a reermine-trimmed suit, a wide leather belt at shiny boots, cemented Santa Claus's image...
Wherever Brezhnev went, he was accompanied by a platoon of burly security men (some of whom carried submachine guns in briefcases) wearing the obligatory fedoras and leather coats. All together the West Germans contributed 10,000 security police to protect the Soviet leader during his three-day stay...
...class confusion may be overstated, but Lurie's reports from the field of feminine fashion are witty and compact. On designer accessories: "Very ugly brown plastic handbags, which, because they were boldly stamped with the letters 'LV,' . . . cost far more than similar but less ugly brown leather handbags." On excess jewelry: a "lower-middle-class or nouveau riche indicator of sensual laxity." The "Annie Hall" look: "I'm only playing; I'm not really big enough to wear a man's pants." On executive skirts: "Ordinary gestures like sitting on a low sofa...
...metallic-blue 1978 Plymouth, where his chauffeur was waiting, engine idling, to drive him to his post as the charge d'affaires in the U.S. embassy on the Place de la Concorde. Almost immediately, Chapman became aware of a bearded, athletic-looking young man in a black leather jacket who was approaching down the sidewalk. But Chapman sensed no danger until the man thrust his hand into his jacket and started after him. Chapman dodged around his car and ducked for cover as seven shots rang out. Two 7.65-cal. bullets from the gunman's semiautomatic Beretta pistol...