Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope the students will come in leather jackets, tennis shoes, and greased hair to recreate the '50's air," Larry DiCara '71, Quincy House Committee chairman, said last night...
...Location. Bremer briskly set about expanding the program far beyond its original blueprint. He established an auto-mechanics class in an auto-repair shop, a leatherworking class in a leather shop, a journalism course at the offices of the Evening Bulletin, and dozens of others that are taught on location...
...wonder is that a few emerge unscathed. Director Sidney Furie (The Leather Boys, The Ipcress File) uses film gimcracks that have become pure convention: oblique camera angles, elliptical scene shifts, blinding lights to denote oppressive authority. Still, he maintains an even pace that helps tone down the film's giddy aspirations. As Petrocelli, Newcomer Barry Newman must cope with the staggering improbability of the lawyer's very presence in the town. But he approaches the role with cheerful pugnacity instead of that air of insufferable concern that overlays most screen lawyers. The master craftsman in this melange, though...
THERE is a scene in the James Dean movie, "Rebel Without A Cause," in which the hero and his leather-jacketed, hard nosed antagonist must pit their honor and their courage aganist one another in a dangerous automobile contest destined to take from one of them either his life or the respect of his friends. As they survey the course they will be driving, they glare at each other, their fears walled up inside the cool they try to maintain. A moment before the trial begins, however, they face one another, exchange names. "I like you," admits the leader...
...idealism since the second World War: the role of women rockets, Hitler, an extra ordinary passage on growing old, and the market in neo-capitalist society, as well as some intense visuals suggestive of the work of Francis Bacon, animated collages of fashion models, a woman dressed in black leather whose dramatic relation (if indeed she has one) is never made clear, a stripper and a slaughter-house sequence more forceful than anything in Franju's Le Sang des Betes...