Word: leatherizing
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...Frenchman, Jean-Olivier Hucleux, who has developed a technique of such extreme verisimilitude as to make nearly all U.S. photo-realism seem clumsy and generalized. His favorite subject is, lit erally, nature morte: French graveyards, with their raked gravel, their cakes of black granite brought to a patent-leather gloss, their iconography of morose kitsch. Hucleux paints them down to the last molecule and the result is a form of trompe l'oeil that contrives to be both meditative and irritating, done with a delicacy of touch that defies analysis...
Conrad Hilton Hotel, where the President was to address a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, was patrolled by hundreds of uniformed police, scores of detectives equipped with walkie-talkies, undercover agents in jeans and leather jackets, plus plainclothes policewomen in slacks...
...pornography is not confined to the movies. In the Place Pigalle and along the Rue St. Denis, there are now dozens of dirty book stores, sex shops and théátres érotiques. A full leather-and-whip set sells for $125, and there are inflatable plastic dolls with all the proper-or improper-accouter-ments that...
...reads like The Prince by Matchabelli. He believes that shoes should be the five-eyelet type from Peal & Co., Ltd. and must always be highly shined. Expensive, thin briefcases are out. A man making less than $50,000 should carry only an old, battered two-handle briefcase. A thin leather portfolio is proper between $50,000 and $100,000. A man who makes more than that should not carry a briefcase...
Like most subcultures, the homosexual world has its own language. To cruise is to go out looking for sex. A nellie is an effeminate fellow, and a butch a virile one. Male gays who project or seek hypermasculinity go to leather bars, often to pick up a partner for s. and m. (sadism and masochism) or b. and d. (bondage and discipline)-terms sometimes used among heterosexuals as well. Brown leather refers to either a newcomer to the leather crowd or a bar where patrons are more interested in posturing than in seeking risky sex. Trade refers to a very...