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In response to the tourism industry, they have grown progressively less simple—all kinds of colors and skins are now available—but you can still get the original, endearingly simple Abarca, in brown, navy, black, and yellow, for less than US$20.
The Times of India said that New Delhi need not take this too seriously, because it is "just one of several banana skins the US leader dropped and stepped on in Moscow."
O'Callaghan records a license to Sieur de la Salle: “We have granted, as a privilege, the trade in cibola skins.”
Here is a sampling of improbable movie moments from the summer of 1999: A young man takes a sudden notion to hump an apple pie; a gargantuan crocodile inexplicably migrates from its tropical habitat to set up shop in a frigid Maine lake; a trio of doomed documentarians, being stalked in the woods by a furry witch, never stops filming and videotaping themselves even as they are supposedly jumping out of their skins with terror; the search for an Alzheimer's cure leads to the inadvertent creation of oversized mako sharks with brains so enhanced they are able to apply the principles of hydraulic engineering to their deadly advantage, to say nothing of operating commercial kitchen equipment.
Incidentally, I seem to recall reading somewhere that skins as slang for `dollars' dates from frontier days when trappers used animal skins as currency, and is therefore much older than early 20th-century Harlem.