Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning of the interview, Brezhnev formally gave his guests a red leather folder containing his prepared answers to those questions that had been submitted in advance and then answered additional questions from TIME'S delegation. The contents of the folder became an immediate souvenir for Nelan; the answers were typed in Russian, with Brezhnev's signature on the last page...
Instead of a group out of On The Waterfront, I found an assemblege more familiar, the staff of the Harvard Law Review. For every dirty sweatshirt and leather jacket there were at least two tweed sport coats...
...cosmos-and then realizes that he has forgotten his watch. Timeless, he has lost his place in history. A girl's black bell-bottomed trousers "flare out as shadow would flare out/ If the source of light/ Were centered in her belly." The poet moves in his leather jacket, "a cow's hide stuffed with soul." In "War" he compresses the century's anguish to four barbed-wire lines...
Candidate for 1978's most needed Christmas present: a piggy bank containing $29.84 sent to Dennis Kucinich, mayor of bankrupt Cleveland. Most useful present: a leather-covered toolbox, complete with screwdrivers and toenail clippers, given to buxom, blond-wigged Country Singer Dolly Parton, who says her new toolbox is "very feminine looking" and filled with "things I can use on the road." Most jovially received present: a pound of bacon, presented by reporters to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance before they all landed at Andrews Air Force Base last week. Said the correspondent chosen to hand over the pork...
Straight back from the entrance is the Grill Room, the main cocktail lounge. Rich wood paneling surrounds a room filled with leather chairs, backgammon sets and muted conversation. Brooks Brothers and J. Press (both stores are about a block away) seemed to have clothed every patron of this dignified enclave...