Word: leatherizing
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...evening is secluding himself in a hotel room and ?slam! crash! chop!?working out a new king's side attack. He always requests a room without a view lest he be distracted from the game. If he ventures out, he always takes his trusty leather pocket set with him. On elevators, in taxis, between dinner courses?he is always at it, busily fiddling away like some old crone at her knitting. "Why should I bother with anything else?" he asks. "Chess is my profession...
...machines now do practically everything but press the finished garment. Dial a knob or change a foot and your machine can sew on buttons or make flawless buttonholes. Machines can also darn socks, embroider blouses and monogram pockets as well as baste, hem and stitch once "impossible" materials like leather and stretchable knits. In addition to all this, Singer's expensive Touch & Sew model ($439.95) has solid-state speed control enabling it to breeze through varying thicknesses of fabric without being reset. Today, however, many inexpensive machines (about $60) offer zigzag, hemming and stretch stitches plus an extra foot...
...fine as a lady's "invisible" hair net. The net is invisible in the dark when the bats sortie and, more important, its fine threads give back no detectable echo for the vampire's sonar system. When a bat is netted, a technician wearing tough leather gloves carefully removes it from the net and rubs its back with half a teaspoonful of petroleum jelly laced with 50 milligrams of diphenadione...
Jane Greenwood's togas and gowns are fine, though I am less fond of the leather military uniforms and not at all fond of the inverted chamber pots the soldiers wear on their heads. John Morris's incidental music is inferior, and is too often used to underscore speech that would better have our undivided attention. Still, Kahn is offering a production that is certainly worth a visit unless the 1953 film happens to be playing nearby...
...resourceful Raquel, of course, gets both a new mount and a new man in the person of a bounty hunter named Thomas Luther Price (Robert Gulp). Price takes her to Mexico and teaches her how to shoot. Admirably, he seldom seems distracted by her wardrobe, a pair of skintight leather pants and a beat-up poncho that flies open frequently...