Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reed was half the brains behind The Velvet Underground. Andy Warhol's slightly successful excursion into rock as theater. The other half was John Cale. Seems that John used to tread upon Lou's rock 'n' roll shoes a lot in those days. It got to the point where the band wasn't big enough for both of them, so Cale split, leaving the Velvets to some good rock 'n' roll for a year or so. Now Lou's gone the way of his good friend David Bowie, but he's still supposed to know how to rock 'n' roll...
...ACADEMY IN PERIL; John Cale (Reprise, $5.98). A bizarre, whimsical but steadfastly intriguing serving of pop esoterica from a young composer who has worked with both John Cage and the rock group, Velvet Underground. Cale's orchestral writing (played by the Royal Philharmonic) often sounds like ersatz Charles Ives, Cale's piano parts (played by Cale himself) like sleepy Debussy. Yet within their pop context, they possess a kind of "laid-back" mood that may just appeal to the rock young...
...most extraordinary acts is the longpole trick. One acrobat casually balances a 16-ft. bamboo pole between his shoulder and chin. A second climbs aboard, shins up to the top, and once there slowly swings his legs out parallel to the ground. Putting one foot in a velvet loop attached to the pole, he stands, then reaches down to a third acrobat, and the two perform a series of elaborate hand-to-hand exercises...
...example, the so-called Chichester-Constable chasuble, whose scenes (like the Adoration of the Magi, opposite) are embroidered with dense, flat expanses of metal-covered thread. Tin, mined in Cornwall, was drawn to a fine ribbon, coated with gold, wound around the silk and then worked into the red velvet ground with a gold or silver needle; steel needles, as known today, were not used until the 15th century...
...tailors' way of seaming together strips of fabric, which were then reinforced with a decorative vertical band called an orphrey. Orphreys might be relatively simple-as on the Met's heavily restored 14th-15th century Spanish chasuble, with its complex design of formalized pomegranates in woven velvet split by an embroidered ornamental band with figures...