Word: leatherizing
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...tattered armchair, Eliot sits, facing the black, leather chair that his grandfather--President Charles Eliot of Harvard--once took to college. The name Eliot is practically synonymous with historical Cambridge. His father wrote the official history of the town and was president of the Cambridge Historical Society, but now--one year after he gave up his official position--he studies the history of Cambridge only as a hobby...
...shop threads for Giorgio Armani suits and a clean-shaven, manicured Continental haute couture. Sitting in one of Herb Cohen's small offices and backdropped by a fountain and Spanish courtyard, Waits needn't have inquired "Giorgio who?" to debunk that fiction. One look was enough: pointed black shoes (leather cracked), tight, wrinkled straight black pants, a haphazardly-buttoned off-white white shirt, his goatee more under his chin than on it, and wavy brown hair jutted high on top, seemingly propped upright by a pair of oversized sideburns...
...dull razor and caught in a champagne glass) and in the insatiable adolescent craving for getting the older folks steamed. There is no steam in George Harrison's / Me Mine; most of the excess is in the price. Available by subscription, the book is hand-bound in fine leather, its pages gilded like some special presentation edition of the King James. It sells for ?148 ($355), a sum that could bankrupt most remaining Beatles fan clubs...
Oshman's Chief Executive Alvin Lubetkin says he is convinced that there is still a market for the exotic fare that made A&F celebrated. The Dallas store has already stocked up with a $350 rhinoceros-shaped leather hassock, $300 pipes made from bruyère roots and $40,000 elephant guns inlaid with gold and platinum. A discriminating car collector can pick up a new version of the famed Abercrombie Runabout sports convertible for $20,775. If any buyer cares, the car gets a surprising 25 m.p.g. on the highway...
...experiences writing this week's story, Sidey says: "The work was shoe leather and phone. A call to Bob Strauss [chairman of the Carter-Mondale campaign] is always like plugging into General Headquarters, U.S.A. He has always just come away from a meeting with the President or John Connally or God. The story also took some long, tough hours of reading and thinking. But for the most part it was a lovely journey with old and new friends." The story includes, by the way, some fishing news...