Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This crazy scene, one of Moscow's landmarks, was at its most surreal one Friday night a few weekends ago when Steele celebrated his birthday with the staff and patrons. As the kitchen rolled out a huge birthday cake, a 70-year-old babushka dressed scantily in tight green leather and swinging a green leather purse danced in the center of the bar. She was not part of the planned birthday festivities, however: a Russian film-maker was shooting a scene in which the Methuselan sex kitten was the main attraction. The people at the bar loved...
...terrible, forcing Knight to buy a shoemaking operation in Italy. The company poured money into R. and D. and designed a new soccer shoe around Ronaldo, a Brazilian, voted best player in the world last year. The new model, called the Mercurial, uses a synthetic material instead of kangaroo leather, and is 50% lighter than current models. "It's going to rock the shoe world," says Mike Moyle, CEO of Eurosport, a leading mail-order catalog. Despite its investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, Nike is outsold by Adidas 3 to 1. But it has made some inroads...
...Crimson returns three starters to what must rightly be called the Ancient Eight's best outfield. Harvard's defensive anchor and defending Ivy League Player of the Year, senior Brian Ralph, will patrol centerfield and pull down superlatives from around the League for his leather...
...past 30 years, Princeton players have been bullied and brainwashed into looking for the pass first and the shot second. When the leather of the roundball touches your hands, your first thought is, Who else is open? Not, How am I gonna get my shot? It's not easy to learn, and it goes against the grain of me-first American individualism and the lure of million-dollar sneaker contracts. The highest skill of a Princeton basketball player is not to run, jump or shoot but to see. And it is still the rarest basketball skill...
...theaction, a sort of potpourri of capablestick-handlers and nuclear families. On the rightside of the mural, at a lone table far away fromthe main event, two black men shoot a game. In themidst of jolly family fun and Hollywoodexcitement, one of the black players, dressed in ashiny leather suit with matching hat and danglinggold medallions, lines up his next shot.Meanwhile, his partner, clad in a blue and whitejumpsuit, shakes a fistful of dollars and a bottleof liquor, the Sully's tallisman. The mural maysay a number of things about Sully's--but mostlyit says that this place hasn...