Word: dacron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marvin began his tour in Houston looking trim and hickory-hard, striding through the airport like a drill sergeant in Dacron. Trailing behind were his large pressagent, his little manager, Meyer Mishkin, and local studio men handing out photographs and toting bags. "Hey!" shouted a cab driver, clapping an arm around Marvin's shoulder. "Where's your horse...
...heart drastically damaged by coronary-artery disease. Karp had had an implanted pacemaker for eleven months, but it was failing. Cooley first tried to save him by cutting out the dead area of heart muscle and stitching the sides of the hole together with a piece of Dacron for reinforcement. But when this was done, Karp's heart refused to beat spontaneously. Karp had been linked during the operation to a heart-lung machine, both breathing for him and pumping his blood, but this could keep him alive for only a few hours. Better, Cooley decided, to remove...
...Baylor College of Medicine, who has worked on artificial hearts for ten years. He now had ready a device that might keep Karp alive for a week or two. It is about the same size as a natural heart and is made of Silastic (a silicone plastic), with Dacron cuffs for attachment to the "distributor cap," or blood-vessel connections, in the remnant of Karp's own heart. It is self-contained except for one essential ingredient: a power system to deliver a steady, pumping beat. This must come from an external console as big as a refrigerator standing...
Bill Bellinger, 29, makes dumb-looking sculptures that consist of a piece of rope slung from floor to ceiling. Keith Sonnier, 27, puddles flimsily sensuous Dacron on the floor. David Lee, 31, hangs clear sheets of plastic from the rafters. Richard Tuttle, 27, tacks up wrinkled octagons of canvas...
...lowliest guitar. They can walk on Piero Gilardi's soft polyurethane carpet and be amazed when they do, for it is sculpted to look exactly like a bed of stones. Or they can tie themselves up in knots with Robert Israel's 35-foot-long Dacron and vinyl python titled Progress...