Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That bold presidential stroke overshadowed another judicial development. Wearing padded prison jackets and leather handcuffs, former Korean Central Intelligence Agency Chief Kim Jae Kyu and seven of his colleagues shuffled into a heavily guarded military court in Seoul, and the trial of Park's alleged assassins got under...
...studies of the great and near great of Italian art. This boxed three-volume re-edition, translated by Gaston Du C. de Vere (Abrams; 2323 pages; $225), is of high quality on the inside with gemlike tip-ins, though a touch tacky on the outside with spines of imitation leather. Real cloth would have been classier...
Allen says, "Our first weakness--it's no secret--is lack of size." Unfortunately, Allen understates. Harvard may not have seen a hoop team this small since they were playing with leather helmets out on Soldiers Field...
Winter is descending on the Iraqi capital, or so they claim in the coffeehouses on Saadun Street, even though the afternoon temperature hovers above 90°. After comments on the weather, conversations with leather-faced Iraqi peasants, sipping lemon tea or sweet Turkish coffee, or with natty young chain-smoking bureaucrats from nearby ministries turn these days to politics. That means the ascendancy of Saddam Hussein, who has moved decisively to strengthen his grip on the country...
...Pritchett was sent off to learn the leather business. By 1921 he was an expatriate, earning a slender living selling photography supplies, ostrich feathers and shellac in Paris. It was the Paris of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, but Pritchett knew little of it. He recalls a winter evening in 1922 when he watched people walking up the Boulevard du Montparnasse carrying a large blue-covered volume. It was the first edition of Joyce's Ulysses, an author Pritchett had not heard...