Word: leathering
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...film by Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age) and distributed through Fox—I had considered what life with a child might look like one day: sacrificing Y Tu Mamá También for Daddy Day Care and midnight movies for early Saturday morning showings, risking my Italian leather mules to the indeterminate gummy red substances that seem to accompany children. After seeing the film, I was only more thankful for the invention of contraception...
...Norman, Okla., law office, attorney Steven Presson stores two unusual keepsakes. One is a leather pouch that holds the ashes of Sean Sellers, the only person executed for a crime committed as a 16-year-old since the death penalty was reinstated in the U.S. in 1976. Sellers--who murdered his mother, his stepfather and a store clerk--was dispatched by lethal injection in 1999, when he was 29. Presson's other memento is a plastic box containing the ashes of Scott Hain, who, it now seems fair to say, was the last juvenile offender to be executed...
...luminous floor-to-ceiling velvet curtains, decorated with handmade furnishings and wrought-iron fixtures, and illuminated by candlelight. The Asian accents (such as the Thai-inspired, brushed-aluminum sinks that seem to levitate above the bathroom counters) complement the textures of soft, natural fabrics and supple pebble-grain leather, while a spa and a golf simulator provide diversion on even the dreariest of North European days...
...been imprisoned. "I didn't throw him in jail," Assad told me. "I don't do everything in this country." It was an admission his father never would have made. The President's body language was more ophthalmologist than dictator. He sat hunched deep in a black leather couch. There was no physical sense of power or menace to the man, no sociopathic cool, just consternation. When I asked him who killed Rafiq Hariri, he seemed stricken: "The most important question is, Who had the benefit...
...either want something super-expensive with beautiful detailing or you want something that's hip and disposable. What does the well-made, kind of nice stuff in the middle mean anymore?" Not so much when it comes to the Dolce & Gabbana customer. "When we offer a shoe in leather and also in snake or eel, the first to sell will be the most expensive," says Stefano Gabbana, whose idea of casual is jeans trimmed with astrakhan fur. "But our customer is also practical," adds Domenico Dolce. He points to the new Dolce & Gabbana fur coat, which is made of mink...