Word: leatherizing
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...erotomaniac" whom Brook equipped with a perpetual erection, urges Charlotte to return to Caen; he forgets himself and nearly rapes her. Sade is whipped -- in London and New York with Corday's flowing hair, since the decency laws forbade public flagellation -- and here with a lash of six flat leather tails. Marat sinks into darkness and confronts the ghosts of his past, who slander his childhood, and Voltaire and Lavoisier, who mock his scientific achievements -- all played by a writhing tableau of mental patients...
...Japanese. Finally, at a Texas-sized barbecue (1,200 lbs. of steak, 800 double lamb chops, and strawberry ice cream in kangaroo-shaped molds) outside Canberra, the President turned up in full Western rancher's regalia-brown twill trousers, brown shirt, brown tie, brown jacket with brown leather presidential seal, cowboy boots and tan Stetson. The 750 guests, dressed in business suits and garden-party dresses, were slightly jarred by the sight...
Guilt and embarrassment, though, is what the rock 'n' roll faithful get used to -- embarrassment at being part of a crowd of 12-year-old girls (at some concerts) or of black-leather-jacketed toughs (at the Righteous Brothers). When you hear the music you came to hear, it's all worthwhile. But the other 75 per cent of the time, you wonder if you're crazy
...left Krishnamurti where I found him, in a leather chair surrounded by students eager to impress him with their knowledge of obscure Indian cults. Not until a few days later did I realize what an impact he had made on me. I was walking through the Yard when I happened to be struck by the slender, bright-white spire of Mem Church slicing the dark sky. I stopped, looked, and tried to concentrate. "What the hell are you doing standing like a fool gazing at the sky?" I asked myself. There was an embarrassing silence. Then it started raining...
...from Esso. The real power in Manila?and the Philippines?is never so embarrassingly garish. In the leather-upholstered interior of the Casino Español, under the flutter of ceiling fans, the talk is of sugar prices and the new timber-cut in Mindanao as the members of Manila's power elite discuss their endeavors. Polished ilustrados in dark Italian suits and handsome women in bright mestiza dresses nod politely to aging Carmen Soriano and her 39-year-old son José Maria, heirs of the Soriano fortune (Cebu copper mines, Samar iron, Mindoro cattle and dairy, Mindanao mahogany...