Word: leatherizing
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...Florida investigators testified, the school was raided by state officials; among other brutalizing instruments, they found shackles and a brown leather whip. One nurse said she had treated numerous bruises from chains. Von Hilsheimer told TIME Correspondent Joe Kane that his young charges were "miserable, hateful, violent bastards." The school's former headmaster, Ronald E. Nowicki, could also be violent. In a fit of anger he punched a female student so hard that he ruptured her eardrums...
...that is always bad. The World Cup this summer has made it easier to stomach inflation and the defections of the politicians. Whether it is right in terms of the potential!ties of the human soul for people to think more of the kicking around of a chunk of leather than of Hamlet and Bach's B Minor Mass is a question best not argued. The Fussballweltmeisterschaft has brought nations together in unlethal rivalry, and that cannot well be shrugged off as a lot of fussball about nothing...
...Jackson climbs out of bed in his penthouse apartment overlooking downtown Oakland. (Later this year he will move into an $85,000 condominium in the Berkeley Hills.) Once he has selected the day's outfit from three oversized closets that contain 100 shirts and pairs of pants, twelve leather jackets ("I've got every color") and a dozen hats, he heads to a diner called Lois the Pie Queen for brunch...
...cruelty cut the airy imagining. " Try this,' I told my son. I handed him a two-ounce, slightly chewed Yellow Cab with a treble hook mounted on the front bumper ... Inside a minute, he had three wiggling pedestrians on the hook ... One was a girl in a patent-leather suit, hooked lightly through the lip, so we released her. On the next three casts, we added a spade pimp, an elevator inspector, the club-footed editor of a monthly insurance company newsletter, and three prostitutes...
...Springsteen's fresco of muscle and dope is not the revelling in machismo that it might be (i.e. J. Geils), although clearly anybody who has proclaimed in song that "I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra" is to be watched closely. But even when a chorus of women sing "Those romantic young boys, all they ever want to do is fight," it conveys a soft ironic criticism which runs through the whole album, up to the point where Springsteen tells a girl friend "you oughtta quit this scene...