Word: leatherizing
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...insisted loudly and repeatedly that he does not recognize the legitimacy of the trial, he is now fully engaged in it, serving as his own defense attorney. Every morning he comes to court in a suit and tie, carefully takes the pages of handwritten notes from his black leather briefcase and settles into his seat. He listens closely, takes notes, sometimes smiles or scowls, other times just sits impassively with his arms crossed. He interrupts from time to time to mock the whole procedure, and then he grills witnesses with what some say is the technique...
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...
...with the winner's price deducted from his portion of the small amount of money we each got from the estate," he says. Although brother Harry didn't score the fringed footstool for his wife and kids, he did go home with his father's old leather chair, some antique furniture and jewelry to pass down to his six children and, best of all, photo albums of the Hagerty clan spanning the past century. "Knowing my children will eventually inherit these family things is important to me," he says. Roy says the process of closing down his family home...
...like they have spent the past six months in a gym. Local shops are crammed with astonishing outfits that can only be described as fit for a queen. Even the elderly lady who runs the corner bookstore cashes in. "Well, dearie," she says, "we have everything here: books on leather, S&M, bisexual, lesbian, whatever...
...manga monsters to me." That initiation into the concept of rock 'n' roll as fantasy would be the germination of Oyamada's own career. (He acquired his musical pseudonym, Cornelius, from the name of a friendly simian in the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes.) But instead of platform leather boots, pancake makeup and pyrotechnic stage shows, Oyamada would go on to vent his wild side through his uninhibited, almost childlike sonic stylings. This obsessive fascination with music as an aural portal to his (and our) more Dionysian alter egos made his 1998 album Fantasma an international breakthrough. The charged...