Word: leatherizing
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...usual, songwriting Guru Dave Faulkner focuses his trenchant lyrics, on faithless girlfriends and confused, desperate men, but with a venom unfelt on the band's two previous albums. The song titles alone--for example, "Out That Door," "What's My Scene," "I Was the One," "Hell for Leather," and "In the Middle of the Land"--spell out these feelings...
...aesthetic standards of its modern setting. Going far beyond the Bard's request for "brevity," playwright Richard Curtis has provided the most laconic dialogue in memory. Hamlet's famous--and, in a bad production, interminable--soliloquy is reduced here to eight words. In the economical vocabulary of Curtis' leather-clad characters, a particular unprintable word suggesting the sexual act makes up half the dialogue, to hilarious result...
ONCE UPON a time there was a game called football. Men dressed up in funny-looking knickers and leather helmets and ran around a field for 60 minutes, while college students and alumni dressed in strange-looking fur coats sat in the stands waving triangular banners and sipping brandy from pocket flasks. The game was a sporting contest between 22 men from two different colleges...
...architect- designed houses in the exurbs. After warmly greeting Rover (often an akita or golden retriever), they check to be sure the pooch service has delivered his nutritionally correct dog food. Then they consult the phone-answering machine, pop dinner into the microwave and finally sink into their Italian leather sofa to watch a videocassette of, say, last week's L.A. Law or Cheers on their high-definition, large-screen stereo television...
WHEN I'M really in the mood to waste some shoe leather I'll make my way over to Central Square. On the map Central Square is shown as part of Cambridge, but in reality it is a separate fief, administered by the Federal Bureau of Urban Blight; Cambridge proper actually ends at the eastern end of the Mt. Auburn St. used book store zone, a retail no man's land where no one ever ventures...