There could not have been a more joyous holiday in this part of the East End, even in the year 1559, when Queen Elizabeth, "attended by a thousand men in harness with shirts of mail," came to exactly the same place where Queen Mary stood this afternoon to hear a Spital sermon.
So the terrier men and harness makers came in their coaches, a few uppercrust masters of foxhounds took lunch in their London clubs, hundreds of thousands of people who love the English countryside and want to save it -- to London we all marched.
Those two men have harnessed the former president's clout to expand their businesses while making the Clintons rich through partnership and consulting arrangements.
Musically, though, these modest young men are harnessed to a production that sounds as if it's been on an over-assertiveness course.
As the basement party room at the Historical Thatched Cottage, a catering hall in Centerport, filled with men wearing harnesses, leather jackets, leather chaps and metal-studded chokers, Mr. Burdi, a 47-year-old hair colorist from Valley Stream, sounded more like a politician than a finalist in a particular kind of beauty contest.
In his book "The Power Elite," published in 1956, the leftist thinker C. Wright Mills identified a class "composed of political, economic, and military men," who harnessed "the major means of production" along with "the newly enlarged means of violence" created in the nuclear age.
He was the first man to harness electricity to freeze time to an instant.
Later, we walked a few blocks to The Spike, a notorious leather bar with men in harnesses, tit rings and clamps and leather chaps, some sporting Prince Alberts.
The man who harnessed Mr. Burakov and Mr. Shcherbakov into the zorb told the police that they were his first customers, and that he was not licensed to offer rides, having bought the ball two years ago for his own use.
The impression is that Hazard retains a deep respect for the man who harnessed the work ethic in his game, and under whom he celebrated a second domestic championship to add to the Ligue 1 title claimed with Lille in 2011.
