Word: leathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean. I mean Sardi's back in the old days--back when gangsters went there, and showgirls, and all those members of what they called high society. Tommy's is like that too, in that too--in a strangely refracted way. The gangsters are usually crypto-punks in tortured leather, the showgirls strident and society--well, society usually consists of Keezer's on parade--but still, it has a certain something to it like Sardi's used to. It has that certain je ne sais quoi--I guess you could call it desperation. You see, nobody I've ever really...
Absence of socks, for example, is a clear tipoff that extra, not less, care is being taken. The habitual wearing of fine leather next to the skin necessitates an air of nonchalence whose cultivation takes a great deal of effort...
...Bible for every taste-or lack thereof. For the Christian who has everything, Oxford Press offers the Washburn College Bible, a dressed-up King James Version with 66 full-color reproductions of masterpieces from Giotto to Rouault and three screen prints by Josef Albers: $3,500 for a red leather-bound three-volume "limited edition" in a cloth-covered redwood case. A scaled-down one-volume slipcased trade version costs a mere $65. (Oxford's cheapest King James is $12.50.) At the opposite end of the cultural scale. Scarf Press and David C. Cook have issued Bibles in comic...
Past the classic first editions bound in leather, pages leafed in gold. Past the photographs, all framed in hand-worked silver. Past the old oak tables crowded with souvenirs of distant, long-lived lives, toward a deep chair washed in the dim gold light of a British late autumn...
...famous décolleté dress for $150-one-tenth the price of the original-and store it on a Lady Di hanger. For fun, there is a crossword puzzle with answers that form a princely head. For salvation, there is a Bible, bound in silver imitation leather, and featuring, yes, those innocent, royal faces...