Word: leatherizing
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...weeks ago, he tied into an even bigger fish off Montauk, N.Y. "I fought him for 5¾ hours," says Margulies, "before the reel jammed and the line finally broke. By the time it was over, the pressure on my leather shoulder harness had cut my shoulders and rib cage to ribbons, and I was covered with blood." At least he doesn't have to live with the experience of New York Attorney Frank Bramm, who connected off Montauk. Bramm battled the fish for two hours, skillfully thwarting his every stratagem. At last he maneuvered him to within...
...disagreeable." Now his manner is basically tonal, which, he feels, actually affords the composer a wider horizon of dissonance. In another Williamson work produced at Newport, a nonet for five players and four dancers, long sequences of butter-would-melt tunefulness suddenly gave way to a perky hell-for-leather style reminiscent of Stravinsky's acidulous neoclassicism...
Having disposed of the black leather-jacket set in The Wild Angels and LSD(The Trip), Roger" in The Wild Angels" and LSD (The Trip), Roger Corman turns to the past for sensations and comes up with Al Capone. The result is lots of catsup in ballrooms and garages. Corman, a set-happy director, lets the furniture generate most of the suspense in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. You're on the edge of your seat, in anguish: Will the next chairs zipping into the picture be dressed in chintz or campy antique satin...
...Mark Cross, with four full-time agents in Europe searching out items that the store might contract out to small factories to produce. The items include luggage of all sizes, handbags, gloves, belts, jackets, jewel boxes, key cases, credential cases, photo albums, loose-leaf books for all purposes, and leather-trimmed gifts for all occasions...
Mark Cross looks back to modest beginnings, when an Irish saddler, Henry W. Cross, and his son Mark opened their shop on Boston's Summer Street to sell harnesses and saddles. It later became an exclusive outlet for fine English leather goods, moved to Manhattan to cater to the well-to-do. Though leather has always been the main line, over the years Mark Cross introduced to New York such novelties from the Old World as the Thermos bottle and, during World War I, the wristwatch, which it was first to sell...