Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never much of a student and won few friends for his play ground manners. But a left book like Thompson's got respect especially since he had a big brother in a leather jacket to back...
Everyone laughs at how odd that is and then the stories begin to fly: Jim Sheppe imitating some obscure bird in the small courtyard. Jim Sheppe wearing a huge leather backpack, tromping into the archway to the tune of an old German march which he is simultaneously singing and conducting in the air. Jim Sheppe convincing an audience of credulous Lowell House diners that he had once accidentally partaken of the flesh of two murdered Italian tourists in Africa. "But you know," one person concludes for the whole table. "I really like him. He's a very nice guy, very...
...Reagan program, however, is off to a bad start in Congress. The House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee voted to deny duty-free status to Caribbean goods like shoes, handbags, luggage and leather clothing and to limit the amount of rum that could be imported without the imposition of a tariff. Last week two other House subcommittees barred any Caribbean nation from receiving more than $75 million of the $350 million extra-aid package. The Administration had earmarked $128 million for strife-torn El Salvador, nearly twice as much as for any other country. One of the panels also insisted...
...Stalinism-a political torch fanned by the world's idealists while one avuncular pipe smoker in Moscow was wielding it as a genocidal bludgeon. Certainly Stalin was not typecast as a satanic maniac. Hitler was, and his regime paraded itself as a national theater of cruelty. The black leather and stainless steel, the epileptic rhetoric-these were the props and syntax of a most histrionic villainy. At stage center was a master psychotic, whose depths and demons the world still wants to decipher. What actor has played Stalin? What actor would resist the chance to play Hitler...
...stopover after nine hours of flying. Although he cannot hew to home time, Haig does manage to mitigate many of the debilitations of international travel by submitting to some supersonic pampering. He dons pajamas before climbing into a bunk on his specially equipped Boeing 707. He works in the leather easy chair of a private cabin, and afterward relaxes with friends on his staff. In one department, Haig fares worse than commercial travelers: meals on-board are reportedly very poor, but Haig, a food-is-merely-fuel type, does not seem to care. A team of State Department physicians stands...