Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BURROWS. At 28, Burrows is considered by many of his peers the most creative designer-black or white -working today. Three years ago, he initiated a fashion trend that is still going strong: brilliantly colored, close-fitting dresses and pants put together like mosaics from patches of fabric or leather. He has also created popular body-hugging jersey dresses with rippling hems of uneven length. A native of Newark, Burrows attended the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, then took a job decorating department store windows. Switching to Manhattan's avant-garde O Boutique, he began designing and was soon...
...evening is secluding himself in a hotel room and ?slam! crash! chop!?working out a new king's side attack. He always requests a room without a view lest he be distracted from the game. If he ventures out, he always takes his trusty leather pocket set with him. On elevators, in taxis, between dinner courses?he is always at it, busily fiddling away like some old crone at her knitting. "Why should I bother with anything else?" he asks. "Chess is my profession...
...machines now do practically everything but press the finished garment. Dial a knob or change a foot and your machine can sew on buttons or make flawless buttonholes. Machines can also darn socks, embroider blouses and monogram pockets as well as baste, hem and stitch once "impossible" materials like leather and stretchable knits. In addition to all this, Singer's expensive Touch & Sew model ($439.95) has solid-state speed control enabling it to breeze through varying thicknesses of fabric without being reset. Today, however, many inexpensive machines (about $60) offer zigzag, hemming and stretch stitches plus an extra foot...
...fine as a lady's "invisible" hair net. The net is invisible in the dark when the bats sortie and, more important, its fine threads give back no detectable echo for the vampire's sonar system. When a bat is netted, a technician wearing tough leather gloves carefully removes it from the net and rubs its back with half a teaspoonful of petroleum jelly laced with 50 milligrams of diphenadione...
Jane Greenwood's togas and gowns are fine, though I am less fond of the leather military uniforms and not at all fond of the inverted chamber pots the soldiers wear on their heads. John Morris's incidental music is inferior, and is too often used to underscore speech that would better have our undivided attention. Still, Kahn is offering a production that is certainly worth a visit unless the 1953 film happens to be playing nearby...