Word: leatherizing
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...handbook titled Reporting Guidance: Foreign Intelligence Information, which contains a detailed picture of U.S. counterintelligence activities and techniques. Miller had photocopied it in his office. As she dropped Miller off at a restaurant three blocks from the consulate, the Soviet spy asked him for his black leather FBI credential case containing his ID and badge to prove his authenticity to her Soviet contacts. He handed them over and waited patiently at the table for her return...
...additional solace in psychotherapy, satisfaction in a series of perhaps deliberately ill-chosen affairs, fulfillment in anything creative that is handy. She acts in a local theater, doing brave combat with the role of Blanche DuBois and going to bed with the director. Leaving her, he carries the expensive leather suitcases - "the two prettiest things I ever saw" - Lucy gave him. "One of the small misfortunes of being a rich girl, and she'd known it all her life, was that people would often exaggerate their pleasure when you gave expensive gifts ... It nearly always made her feel foolish...
Williams is not well-suited to play the Last of the White Liberal Lawyers; how many attorneys do you know that take depositions in a black leather skirt? There must be a law school somewhere in Hollywood that turns out these good looking and earnest young lawyers ripe for disillusionment...
...longer addressed as "comrade doctor" but as just plain "doctor." Moreover, János Kádár, once out of favor with the Kremlin, now leads the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. The man's wife appears in the company of a punk rocker in black leather; she has remarried, she says, and has opened a fashion boutique. "Where am I?" moans the Hungarian. "Can this be socialism...
...nose job. His hands always seem to be in motion, partly because he is always moving his sleeves to hide them. That restlessness also colors his imagination, which can be entrepreneurial, as in his double-F logo for the Fendis that appears, like a ranch brand, on all their leather goods; elegant, as in his sumptuous evening wear; or easy, as in some of the simple, savvy suits he did for this fall's Karl Lagerfeld line. He grabs ideas everywhere. He designed a Fendi ermine cape based on the furrows of a plowed field. Polaroids of a fireworks...