Word: leatherizing
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...very long ago, we liked everything to be smooth and sleek and glossy. We liked glass coffee tables in our living rooms and black lacquered tiles in our bathrooms. Then suddenly everything changed. Fabrics became worn and soft. Leather became old and brown and distressed. Smooth was out, texture was in. What happened? It all started with two gay men and an English bulldog in a tiny town in North Carolina...
...year. That may sound paltry next to the hundreds of millions pulled in by such A-list retailers as Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel and Restoration Hardware (armchair giant La-Z-Boy did $2.6 billion in sales last year). But guess who makes most of their upholstered furniture? And the leather club chairs and slipcover sofas in Ally McBeal and Friends? Mitchell Gold...
Bolker: In my day at Radcliffe, we weren’t permitted in Lamont. They were afraid we would pass out from the smell of the sweat socks or something. On the second or third floor of the Radcliffe library, there were these cushy leather chairs where I would go every day. I’d sit sideways in them and write five pages a day. I did that when I wrote my undergraduate thesis. I did that when I wrote papers. You accumulate a lot of writing that way. Most of it isn’t any good...
...boys than a Britney Spears concert. Thousands dance to one beat in the main hall, the rest scatter to smaller pavilions with different themes or spill out into the open-air quadrangle. Volunteer dancers?men wearing tight pink shorts, women in body-clinging vinyl and hairy guys in leather?gyrate on stage to work the crowd into a bacchanalian frenzy. Pop stars perform throughout the night?and morning. Gay icons from Boy George to Gloria Gaynor have made an appearance in the past. Each year the identity of guest performers is kept secret, but this year speculation centers on Janet...
...Wearing a black leather jacket, his trademark blue-tinted shades and a roguish smile, he glided around the table, shaking hands and kissing cheeks. Like Superman turning into Clark Kent, the earnest political operative took over. Before the shy types could mumble about a brief previous encounter, he set them at ease, reciting their names and the circumstances of their last meeting: "Of course! The forum in Boston!" With his glad-handing complete, Bono?founder, spokesman and chief benefactor of DATA, a nonprofit, debt-relief advocacy group?sat down at the edge of the table and, at 1 a.m., recounted...