Word: leatherizing
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...they have since the Vanguard opened, the faithful arrived at a scruffy block in Greenwich Village and descended a precarious flight of stairs to a dark, low-ceilinged room. Sitting on rickety wooden chairs, squeezed in along scarred red leather banquettes, they heard, over six nights, the sort of performers who have made the Vanguard the Mecca of Hip for the past half-century: jazz diva Shirley Horn, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, cafa swell Bobby Short, folk singer Pete Seeger and Professor Irwin Corey, the "World's Foremost Authority," who was once a comic mainstay of the club. Back...
...Briefcase: Sorry, a backpack just won't do. Farrell suggests purchasing some kind of leather binder or small briefcase for interviews. "It doesn't have to be an expensive Chase briefcase or anything, just something nice and simple. You're going to want one in the business world anyway...
...video stores. There are personal ads of the ilk published in the back of swingers' magazines: WANTED TOPLESS MAID CLEVELAND AREA. One can order sex toys of the inflatable and battery-driven varieties, available via 800 numbers and direct mail. There are costumes (men's black leather harness with silver studs) and condoms, leather and rubber goods, the full catalog of kink -- if, of course, you are a consenting adult with some room left on your credit card. The price of ordering the John Wayne Bobbitt video, Uncut: $49.95. Many people like to have this electronic sex in real time...
Many also claim that such salaries would clean up the behind-the-scenes, illegal rewarding of athletes by athletes directors and alumni, I have a friends at Purdue who says that Glenn Robinson, The multi-million dollar Milwaukee Buck forward, was driving a Range Rover with a leather interior while at college, despite coming from an incredibly poor family. Go figure...
...embarrassing,' I cringed. How terribly humiliating for Americans everywhere that the Elvis Club of Hoboken, or some such place, should go gallivanting through Paris dressed in leather jackets, sporting pompadours and blue suede shoes. I hoped they would not notice that I too was American. I prayed that they would not approach me with tales of their nights on the town in Pair-eee or the presents they were bringing home for the 'missus...