Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single bed. Next to the bed is a large night table on which is a pile of books: Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln, H.G. Wells' The Outline of History, Blake's Disraeli. On the bookshelf opposite his bed are the complete works of Winston Churchill bound in red and green leather. "Prime Minister Heath gave them to me when he was here last...
...armed bodyguards ("You just can't be too careful with a man of this stature," says his manager). A black girl doing an "African dance of adoration" stops long enough to remove Hayes' orange, black and white cape, revealing him arrayed in black tights, fur cuffs, a leather vest and a necklace of gold chains...
Jodorowsky is similarly humble in the titles he gives to the four sections of the film: "Genesis," "Prophets," "Psalms," and "Apocalypse." "Genesis" begins with a man in black leather (Jodorowsky) riding on a black horse across the desert. A black umbrella shades his head from the sun. Behind him in the saddle sits his naked son, white against his father's blackness. They stop and father says to son in a deep, forboding voice that lets you know he's saying something heavy. "Now you are a man. You are seven years old. Bury your first toy and your mother...
...corner of his living room overlooking Garden Street where he had composed all the watercolors now collected in the show. "The English Lakes in Sunshine and Shadow" at Hilles Library. He had set his desk between the window ledge supporting blooming begonias and the bookcase containing his leather-bound embossed sets of Blake and Turner prints, Economically equipped with half-a-dozen paints, water and one brush, he had had a gorgeous time. At 78, he had laid a lifetime of artistic training and personal experience to harvest creating what he calls "my little pictures." However harmless Mr. Feild thinks...
...protest could easily have wound up in tragedy, despite a swarm of Mounties and KGB men surrounding the two leaders wherever they went. As Kosygin and Trudeau strolled on Parliament Hill, a leather-jacketed demonstrator dashed through security guards and grabbed the Soviet Premier from behind, shouting "Freedom for Hungary!" As the color drained from Kosygin's face, the man almost ripped off the Soviet Premier's coat and pushed him against a Mountie. The protester was quickly hauled away and charged with common assault. Though Trudeau observed that Kosygin "is a pretty hard-nosed guy," the Soviet...