Word: leatherizing
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...born in Manhattan, has refined his technique over 19 years of study until he is now the most exciting of the masters. He can color his music with crescendos and diminuendos denied to most players by the nature of the instrufnent (the strings are plucked by quills or leather picks instead of being struck by hammers), and with the clawlike attack characteristic of master players, he makes the most mechanical of instruments sound completely unmechanical...
Technical skill appears more often than artistic gifts in the Prison Art Show, but the show as a whole reveals a kind of creativity not usually associated with convicts. Anyone who wants to buy tooled-leather handbags or wallets, dry flies, costume jewelry or model churches could do much worse than the handicrafts on display in Holyoke. But handicrafts are not always art, and anyone who examines the works for their aesthetic value will quickly find that one piece of tooled leather looks very much like another...
...revolution of rodent expectations. No longer content with their network of underground rivers and sewers, armies of rats now prowl the Ginza every night after the cabarets have closed and before department stores open. Rats with affluent tastes gorge themselves on such fancy groceries as melons, leather furniture and mink coats. One gormandizing rat pack even held up construction of a new building by chewing through a strong box and gobbling the blueprints; dim Ginza bars have regular, unscheduled blackouts whenever rats gnaw through power lines, a never-failing taste treat. When a U.S. tourist was assured by the manager...
...succeeded was TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho. From Beirut last week he cabled his report on a 23-day trek in which he crossed the peaks, plateaus and wadis from Aden to the Saudi Arabian border, traveling a total of 1,000 miles by camel, donkey, car and shoe leather without once leaving royalist-held territory (see map). Along the way, Correspondent De Carvalho was repeatedly shot at by Egyptian fighter planes, tanks, mortars, and artillery, saw two of his six Yemeni guards killed and one wounded in battle...
...hero (Vittorio Gassman), an artful dodger in need of some new shoes, strolls into a shoe store and tries on an expensive pair. "They look dark in this light," he murmurs, and permits the salesgirl to urge him toward the front door, where he carefully inspects the leather in the sunlight. A tomato, flung by an accomplice on the sidewalk, smacks him in the face. "Why, you punk!" the hero roars, and as the salesgirl stares in confusion he furiously pursues his assailant down the street and around the corner, running quite well for a man in a new pair...