Word: leatherizing
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...Company catalogue called "America's most famous modern chair" -two doubly curved molded plywood components, one for the seat and the other for the back, which were connected with rubber shock mounts to the plywood and bent steel rod legs. The aristocrat of the Eames family is the black, leather-up-holstered lounge chair, but what became every man's chair was Eames' molded fiberglass stacking chair...
Roaring down the Paris-Strasbourg highway two weeks ago, a 22-ton truck overturned and boxloads of books covered in blue imitation leather were scattered all over the road. Despite that slipup, the secret of the book was kept intact. Last week, when it was released well ahead of schedule, and without the usual publicity buildup, all France was surprised. One critic compared its impact to that of "a 75-ton meteorite," which, as it happens, is just about the weight of the 250,000-copy first edition of Memoirs of Hope: The Renewal, the first of three volumes...
...meeting of the Washington chapter of the Society for the Further Respectability of Burlesque, Veteran Ecdysiast Ann Corio turned up in laced brown leather boots, which she said were her tribute to the woodsmen of the world and (because they zipped up the back) the zipper industry. "I always feel I've failed the zipper industry," said Miss Corio. "I use hooks and eyes on all my garments because the movement to unhook them is both quicker and more graceful than the long, often erratic gesture of zipping. Early in my stripping career, a zipper failed to unzip, quite...
...crack of dawn for an inhumanly early breakfast, the patient in a typical U.S. mental hospital faces a day of TV watching, pingpong, checkers, and perhaps a bit of dishwashing or floor mopping. Then there is lunch at 11:30, an hour of basket weaving or making leather belts, and dinner at 4:30 to end a day spent entirely in the company of his own sex. Is this routine rehabilitating? On the contrary, says Psychologist Wolf Wolfensberger of the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute, it is Rehabilitating. Writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Wolfensberger pleads for what he calls...
...addition to sexual crisscrossing, unisex is characterized by blandness and the avoidance of extremes. Says Winick: "Light from her cigar may provide the only brightness" on modern woman's "barely there" face. Houses are becoming sexless: they contain few leather club chairs or boudoir chairs-or even boudoirs. In interior decoration, the most popular hue is a noncolor, beige. Names too are sexually equivocal; one child out of five has a name like Robin or Leslie or Dana...