Word: leatherous
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...developed an air-guitar T shirt with built-in motion sensors that detect arm movements and turn them into audible riffs. That's not all. A slew of video games, camps and classes are rolling out to fulfill your delusions of rock-'n'-roll grandeur. So slap on those leather pants and get ready to become the next platinum performer--at least in your imagination...
...Vietnam finds itself in the unusual position of joining the world trading club but having none of the benefits of membership apply in the U.S. - its biggest export market. The U.S. recently imposed anti-dumping tariffs on Vietnamese shrimp and catfish, while Europe has done the same for leather footwear, hitting some of Vietnam's biggest exports. While WTO membership allows countries to challenge such barriers, Vietnam joined as a "non-market economy," a classification that denies it some protections afforded to fully fledged members...
...assume you know more than your characters do, or condescend, even to children. A young girl, Munro's alter ego, tells an affluent employer how, where she comes from, "children walked barefoot until the frost came in order to save on shoe leather" and people ate "dandelion leaves, nothing else, for supper." Just as we're shaking, she admits (to us only) that not all of this is strictly true--and so tells us as much about the sly, storytelling imagination of the girl as about rural circumstances that really were desperate...
...scene. "You try to redraw the landscape," he writes. "You try to draw in trench lines ... and khaki bundles hung up on barbed wire." Near Ypres, he watched archaeologists probe the spot where a man's bones had been found. They unearthed a belt buckle, bullet casings, bits of leather. The unknown soldier kept coming into Carlyon's mind for weeks. "What was he doing when the shell hit?" he writes. "Who wept for him?" Near Pozi?res, whose capture in 1916 cost 8,000 Australian lives, Carlyon stood on a height known as the Windmill. From there, "you could almost...
...vitamin-filled size, the best way to pull off (or pull on, as it were) ankle boots is to wear them with opaque tights. This keeps the line of the leg uninterrupted and makes it less weird that you are wearing what is basically a black leather bootie with a high heel. The ankle boot has not really caught on at Harvard, as we are constantly behind on every trend, but I’m sure they will eventually filter into our collective aesthetic, in geekier and less elegant forms. In order to handle this contingency, I offer you: THREE...