Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been called the "last innocent in rock," which is at best partly true, but that is how he appears to audiences who are exhausted and on fire at the end of a concert. Springsteen is not a golden California boy or a glitter queen from Britain. Dressed usually in leather jacket and shredded undershirt, he is a glorified gutter rat from a dying New Jersey resort town who walks with an easy swagger that is part residual stage presence, part boardwalk braggadocio. He nurtures the look of a lowlife romantic even though he does not smoke, scarcely drinks and disdains...
...Frenchman, Jean-Olivier Hucleux, who has developed a technique of such extreme verisimilitude as to make nearly all U.S. photo-realism seem clumsy and generalized. His favorite subject is, lit erally, nature morte: French graveyards, with their raked gravel, their cakes of black granite brought to a patent-leather gloss, their iconography of morose kitsch. Hucleux paints them down to the last molecule and the result is a form of trompe l'oeil that contrives to be both meditative and irritating, done with a delicacy of touch that defies analysis...
Conrad Hilton Hotel, where the President was to address a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, was patrolled by hundreds of uniformed police, scores of detectives equipped with walkie-talkies, undercover agents in jeans and leather jackets, plus plainclothes policewomen in slacks...
...pornography is not confined to the movies. In the Place Pigalle and along the Rue St. Denis, there are now dozens of dirty book stores, sex shops and théátres érotiques. A full leather-and-whip set sells for $125, and there are inflatable plastic dolls with all the proper-or improper-accouter-ments that...
...reads like The Prince by Matchabelli. He believes that shoes should be the five-eyelet type from Peal & Co., Ltd. and must always be highly shined. Expensive, thin briefcases are out. A man making less than $50,000 should carry only an old, battered two-handle briefcase. A thin leather portfolio is proper between $50,000 and $100,000. A man who makes more than that should not carry a briefcase...