Word: leatherizing
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...rebels captured the settlement of Ta Ngon, or Saigon, in the spring of 1776). The research also unearthed some fascinating minutiae: there was only one working toilet in the Colonies - property of a former Royal Governor of Maryland; the na scent sport of golf was played with feather-stuffed leather balls; Boston stores had just begun selling a new gadget called the umbrella...
...talk Ricks chose to stay away from the more surrealistic songs from Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited. Instead, he spoke on five songs from Dylan's early period: "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," "Boots of Spanish Leather." "Blown in the Wind." "Positively 4th Street," and "Seven Courses" a song that Dylan never released. As a literary critic, Ricks apologized for not having the expertise to deal with the musical aspect of Dylan's work to analyze it chemically the things he does with his votes to emphasize and color the meanings of his song...
...then leave you've been manipulated into a state of sexual excitement, but nothing about that moment will stay with you. The Stones records may be listened to a hundred years from now as documents on urban sexuality in twentieth century America, but the lyrics from "Boots of Spanish Leather...
...container for their arrows. ("The skin of a man," noted Herodotus, who could seldom resist a piquant detail, "is thick and glossy, and whiter than almost all other hides.") To relax, they got uproariously drunk on thick wine from the Black Sea area, which they quaffed from the leather-bound skulls of their foes, or they would dump marijuana seeds on red-hot stones and breathe the smoke. Fortunately for archaeology, they buried their dead kings and nobles in barrows, surrounded by every sort of tool, artifact and status symbol they might need in the next life...
...would arrive to ferry across to Aristotle Onassis' private Ionian island of Skorpids and witness the simple rites he had requested and bury him under a cypress tree near his only son Alexander. At last the motor cortege pulled up, and when the American woman in a black leather coat appeared, a murmur ran through the watchers. "A widow for the second time," whispered one old woman in a black shawl. A Mona Lisa smile crept briefly across Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' face, or perhaps it was simply an involuntary grimace at a world forever watching. Behind the dark...