Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violently controversial. Labor leaders denounced it as a plot to drive down wages in industry. Republicans charged that it was a plot by the Roosevelt Administration to buy votes. Most of all, the agency was damned as a gigantic boondoggle; in fact, that word, which until then referred to leather handicrafts made by Boy Scouts, was turned into a pejorative word by WPA critics...
...world with the knowledgeability of a participant. He has, it seems, been into every gay bar, along every gay beach, tried every gay bathhouse-and reports on them. In fact, he defends them as the only show in town for the practicing homosexual. He has even been into "leather," gives an understanding report of the motives (and sufferings) of drag queens, transvestites and transsexuals. He records that his own first homosexual encounter was in a bathhouse where, "clad only in white towels, men prowl the hallways, groping each other in furtive search for instant sex . . . Disgusting? Yes, perhaps. Yet lasting...
...ground, shovelling, dumping buckets of waste earth, and balancing precariously to avoid disfiguring the areas I'd already worked over, my, first instinct was to beat everyone else back to the dining room in order to avoid a queue. As I spent most of the summer digging in medieval leather tanning pits, wallowing amid the preserved medieval pig manure used to cure hides, I was generally quite dirty and smelly. Getting a shower before the hot water ran out was imperative. There was a vogue last summer to read Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, with...
...Finds include animal and human bones, worked stones, bits of metal, coins, glass, trading tokens and pottery. Although metal, unlike the other objects, encrusts with soil as it degenerates, it is identifiable by its density and bright color in the soil. If the soil is damp enough, organic material--leather, insects and their eggs, seeds, rope, wood, flesh, grass and flowers, cloth, animal and human feces--remains fresh and preserved. Non-organic finds, pottery and bones, are washed by the diggers, who quickly learned that potwashing with a toothbrush and cold water is no privilege. Organic finds are cleaned, repaired...
...York Philharmonic. Married to a former Tokyo model named Vera, and the father of a baby girl born in December, Ozawa is as hip as can be. At a recent recital by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Ozawa, still sporting his familiar Beatle hairdo, wore a red turtleneck and carried a leather purse on a longish strap. Is Boston ready for this...