Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chicken--and some kids have learned to take advantage of it. For many, the extent of their forethought is making plans for the weekend, and even those are subject to change at the last minute. They get jobs, not necessarily to save for college but to buy a $400 leather jacket. So many kids skip their homework that most teachers stop assigning more than 15 minutes' worth: ask too much, push too hard, and the students will give up, drop out, become a menace to society. We have to strike a balance, the adults say. We have to be reasonable...
Emerson College student Judy M. Craigo is on one such mission to find winter clothes, and has her eye on a $10 leather coat...
...customers are as assorted as The Garment District's decor--a man in head-to-toe leather and chains stands next to a man in a coat...
...first glance, Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club might be aptly dubbed a modern-day Globe theater. The privileged sit in posh faux-leather booths dining on Cajun delicacies while the rest are left standing like corralled groundlings demarcated by signs that separate the standing from the sitting (so that the seated "patricians" are able to see without over-zealous standers-by encroaching on their line-of-sight). Or perhaps it is only when the guitarist Bill Frisell is playing that this cozy Davis Square establishment deserves such a comparison--the manager assures me that the place is usually...
Having bartered my way into Harvard with an essay bemoaning the difficulty of being a "normal" gay person (or, better yet, "just a person") in face of drag queens and leather daddies, I can understand the repudiation of naughty queers who apparently embody the very homophobic stereotypes that wound us so badly. Why can't they just be normal, decent and respectable like...