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Word: leatherous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Michael Greer, 60, fashionable interior decorator (for Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper); of strangulation; in Manhattan. At week's end police were searching Manhattan's gay community for clues to his murderer. Greer, an admitted homosexual, was reportedly seen at a gay leather bar hours before his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 3, 1976 | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...body." Tiny but muscular, the 77 year-old Gaposhkin is irrepressible. In the midst of conversation he stretches his arms up to the ceiling and implores God, "Why did You give me this incredible desire?" He is a bit of a dandy too; his yellow and brown patent leather shoes dictate the tone of his dress...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: 'I Heard The Learned Astronomer...' | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

...with me until I found one that fit--midnight blue but baggy--for 13 dollars in a Veteran's Warehouse on the east side ghetto of my hometown. I could borrow the cummerbund from my roommate, and my mother found an ancient pair of suspenders with leather loops up in the attic. All in all it was a big pain in the ass getting all the clothes together--I wore an oversized pair of black Marine shoes--and I don't see why they want it for a speaking contest, hardly a cotillion...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Big Game | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

That leggy lady is Actress Charlotte Rampling, 30, former darling of the love-and-leather set. "I was labeled 'decadent' because of The Night Porter, but that's not my personality at all," stressed Rampling last week, recalling her 1974 movie role as the willing captive of an ex-Nazi. Actually, says Charlotte, she is a homebody whose heart belongs to her husband, Writer Bryan Southcombe, 38, and Son Barnaby, 3. From the looks of it, her present image is Hollywood wholesome in every respect. In Charlotte's latest TV movie-titled Sherlock Holmes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 19, 1976 | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...Waldo Von Erich, the all-German Champ, who parades around matches in Buffalo, his home-away-from-home, in full Nazi regalia, including hobnailed boots, Iron Cross medallion, World War II helmet, and leather whip. He has developed a hold which translates into English as "The Claw." When applied to the soft underbelly of the soft underbelly of an inexperienced grappler, von Erich's steel hard grip can gouge through ordinary flesh and grasp ever-so vital internal organs. Von Erich is equipped with a device which was developed late in the War--a sort of belt which wraps around...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: Some Notes on Big-Time Wrestling | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

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