Word: leathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Carr, a friendly, bearded fellow from Bakersfield, Vt., says that in the more austere contests ("This one is really just a big party") tunes written after 1911 are not allowed. Carr, who wears a leather cowboy hat because, he says, it is easily recognizable and leads to offers of beer when he wanders in the audience, is a fiddler, but he has brought his guitar too. Since there is a shortage of guitarists today, he has agreed to play backup for more than half of the contestants. This means that he will be competing against himself, but this...
...appearances, it was like any other meeting of the 13 nations that make up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The usual parade of Mercedes-Benz limousines rolled up outside the swank Inter-continental Hotel in Geneva, where they were met by a cordon of gray leather-jacketed Swiss police and platoons of reporters and photographers. Inside, the oil ministers lived like the modern-day kings they have become. They dined on sumptuous meals that included filet de truite fumée, poussin de Bresse aux morilles and coeur de Charolais róti aux herbes...
...opened last summer to handle the flow of business travelers to Union Carbide. A 250-room Sheraton now on the drawing boards will compete with the Hilton for Danbury's new and generally well-heeled visitors. "This is a city in transition," boasts Dyer, leaning back in a leather chair in his modern wood-paneled office. "It is becoming a white-collar community...
...crowds leave the big top for the last time, there is talk of other fairs carrying on Danbury's traditions. But the old-timers know better: they pack up their ribbons and memories with quiet resignation. Who could forget "The Great Wilno," a leather-clad stuntman who in 1929 was shot out of a cannon over the heads of startled spectators. Or the drenching downpours of 1939, or the clear, crisp days that came to be known as "Leahy's Luck." Or even Cheetah the chimp, who ate hot dogs, swilled soda and adjusted her sunglasses...
...difference: the youthful-looking information systems manager views the program on a convenient monitor while he pounds out the miles on a motorized treadmill at the Xerox Corporate Fitness Center in Stamford, Conn. On his daily jog, White is surrounded by a $61,000 mechanical sculpture garden of chrome, leather and cable: stationary bicycles, cross-country skiing simulators, rowing machines, Nautilus weight stations and racks of dumbbells positioned around the spacious, brown-carpeted gym. Down a hallway hung with modern paintings are whirlpool baths and a sunning room studded with ultraviolet and infra-red lamps. Near by: offices...