Word: leatherizing
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...really behind her, so we can see her singing into her ear. She rarely looks back at him. In the first few bars Fred keeps time by lightly slapping his thigh three times. A few bars later, Ginger keeps time with her riding crop; is it a leather metronome, or a potential instrument of torture...
...until you notice that the players wearing the royal blue jerseys are somehow different. This guy with a candy-apple red Mohawk darts into view, launching his lanky frame at the ball like a madman. In the center of the defense is a buzzing human gnat wearing the black-leather face mask of a professional wrestler. The team captain is a silky assassin who snakes passes with the style and misdirection of 007. His wingman is a shaved-headed, ball-dribbling maestro. Up front: two bleach blond surfer dudes, one of them with the most pinchable cheeks since the Gerber...
...perpetually in the faces of opponents. "My job is to do the dirty work," he says. Co-defender Tsuneyasu Miyamoto is so hyperkinetic it's a wonder he hasn't broken more than his nose, which was injured during a practice game and now requires the protection of a leather mask. On offense, Shinji Ono supplies the fancy footwork and sets up the pair of fair-haired attackers?Inamoto and the slightly disheveled beach bum of the two, Takayuki Suzuki...
Gomes, originally from Plymouth and the former assistant director of the Man and Woman of the Year Awards, portrayed flamboyant characters in several campus plays. In Troilus and Cressida he, in leather pants and bare chest, dry-humped a slender blond man. He was active in gay social life at Harvard and Boston and has told numerous friends that his uncle was Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, though the two are not relatives...
...those inside the vintage-leather beltway of fashion, there are cognoscenti labels. Earl jeans, generally deemed the harbingers of the low-rise trend, have had to make way for those made by Seven, the ultimate insider jeans, with a discreet label, no advertising and a monthly production limited to 100,000 pairs. Then there are dozens of little labels: Miss Sixty, Juicy Jeans, Paper Denim. "It's a wild thing from a fashion standpoint to keep up with this," says Robert Burke, senior fashion director at Bergdorf Goodman. "Consumers move on with these brands very quickly. It's become...