Word: leatherizing
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Imagine an Auden less reticent about the (male) objects of his affection, or a Philip Larkin shedding his librarian's tweeds for a leather jacket and motorcycle boots. Such imagined metamorphoses might give new readers some sense of the lively pleasures awaiting them in the poetry of Thom Gunn, 70. Those who have watched his distinguished career evolve over nearly half a century need, of course, no such introduction; news that a new book of Gunn's poems has arrived is enough to start their celebrations...
...distinct personality. The only truly distinct personas are, in fact, the international students, by virtue of the fact that Medwed blatantly exploits them through their ethnic stereotypes. There's an Italian lover, a pert, fashionable Francaise and a few Asian guys who speak broken English, wear black leather jackets and play video games. Perhaps the most insulting portrayal, though, is that of the Lewises' first student, an Indonesian named Pilombaya who is illustrated as entirely ignorant and is compared repeatedly to a whiny child...
...didn't do much schmoozing, unless you count some guy asking where to get the free drinks, slurring his words the whole time. That was the social high point of a night spent lost in an oil-spilled sea of leather-jacketed, pony-tailed A&R men and high school couples...
...Behind the Music," and even the movie _Seven_ , the "ultimate Bible Cliff Notes" to which Brian directs his congregation when no one can name the seven deadly sins. The most resounding image, however, is undoubtedly Jacob and Brian's sauntering down a New York avenue in matching leather jackets and sunglasses to the tune of Rob Thomas' vocals in Santana's "Smooth...
...Luke Perry. See ya De Niro. Gone are the days when the leather jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding, joint-smoking, potty-mouthed rebel was sexy. No one wants a bad boy anymore. Women, it seems, have traded in the "man" for the "boy"-the ultra-sensitive male, the girl's guy. What distinguishes a "boy" from a "man?" A boy is secure in his sexual ambiguity-he works in the mud by day, cooks and writes verse by night. A boy doesn't pose because he knows the attraction of his own feminine appeal. But do girls really want...