Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Because it is a happy season, a season for exchanging gifts, (even if that gift happens to be you having whipped cream licked off your face by a whip-wielding, handcuff-happy stranger dressed in black leather--an example of one from Kirkland House Secret Santa) a season that, political correctness aside, will, to the average foreign student, always be the "Christmas Season...
...four-legged industrial polymer resin "Ooloo" pitcher ($750) from Artsmart, in the Shops by Harvard Yard. These are popular items, says the store manager: Victorian advertising heavy paper drums, which can be used as tables, (buy three to seven of them with $1,000), or false hide-inside leather-bound books (10 to 76 per $1,000) at Papermint, in the Shops by Harvard Yard...
...Treaty Room, which now serves as the President's home office. George Bush had it done in pale green, with much English chintz; ranks of miniature soldiers marched across the marble mantel. Clinton asked for a masculine, library-like room, and, says Hockersmith, loves the deep red simulated-leather wallpaper, massive, specially designed bookcases and his easy chair and ottoman from the Arkansas Governor's mansion. Nine major treaties -- most recently the Arafat-Rabin agreement of last September -- were signed on the circa-1867 table that serves as his desk...
...album, Appetite for Destruction, used the word nigger and contained the line "Immigrants and faggots/ They make no sense to me." On their new album, however, Axl Rose and his bandmates present a collection of tributes to the '70s punk rock that inspired them -- from the Sex Pistols' Black Leather to the Stooges' Raw Power -- and in doing so they find a way not only to display superb musicianship but also to express anger without their characteristic crassness. Interestingly, if Guns N' Roses on its own albums has sometimes seemed to lose control over its lyrics, its music...
...fashion shift: Timberland's classic waterproof boot has replaced Nike's Air Jordans as the look of choice for youths and young adults. And shoppers who come to retailers looking for Timberland's best-selling Weatherbuck waterproof casual shoes ($99) can also buy garments like men's full-length leather overcoats ($1,100) with the Timberland label...