Word: leatherizing
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...Woodruff, who is known for wearing sunglasses indoors, wore his long dark hair in a ponytail tied with three rubber bands. He attended the press conference clad entirely in black—black leather jacket, black jeans and boots...
...effort to erase their club's history, management has changed its name to Greengrass. Everything else is the same. Customers are still greeted when they enter the joint by a maître d' in an ill-fitting tuxedo. The lounge area is still dark. The black leather modular couches are still so mushy that customers and hostesses almost collapse into each other when they sit down. There are a dozen small tables, each just big enough for the decanter of Suntory whiskey, the water syphon and ice bucket, all of which are provided as part of the basic...
...look," said Lopez, causing grandmothers the world over to cluck at the irony that Lopez, famous for wearing next to nothing, is hawking clothes. The J. Lo line is backed by Andy Hilfiger, brother of Tommy, and designs ranging from a $20 J. Lo T shirt to an $850 leather mini are expected in stores in time for the 2001 Christmas season. An eyewear and accessories line could follow. Lest anyone think this is purely a commercial venture, the line is spurred by Lopez's deep, personal desire to outfit ladies with large backyards. "It is difficult for women...
...there. One Night at McCool's is, finally, quite a brilliant exercise in style. First-time director Harald Zwart, a Norwegian music-video guy, has a marvelously cool eye for the slightly surreal aspects of American bad taste. Lamps that light when you clap your hands, the chrome and leather modernism of an arriviste's pad--they are the objective correlatives of his characters' endless seducibility, their inability to imagine the stupid consequences of ill-considered passion...
...fall of 1983, and my mom was already deeply immersed in her classes, teaching Shakespeare to 10th and 12th graders. Her leather bag was stuffed with copies of "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and "King Lear." I remember wondering, as I reached for the bright yellow booklet, what my mom, an inveterate and notoriously demanding teacher, would want with what were commonly known as "cheater books...