Word: vinyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building. To heighten the impact of Mies's austere geometry, the building and plaza were finished off in rich materials. Siding the plaza are thick strips of green marble; inside, the elevator lobbies have travertine walls and terrazzo floors. In the Seagram offices most walls are covered with vinyl plastic, the executive suites with panels of English oak, the couch in the executive washroom with white plastic. Cracked Architecture Critic Henry Russell Hitchcock: "I've never seen more of less...
...Elmer Bernstein (no kin to Leonard) for The Man With the Golden Arm found itself with an unexpected hit on its hands. Decca is now high on the charts with the soundtrack music of Around the World in 80 Days by Victor Young. Other companies have rushed into vinyl with the sound tracks of such uncertain musical bets as Mogambo, The Pride and the Passion, Hot Rod Rumble. By and large, present-day studio composers seem a trifle more sophisticated than the practitioners of "Micky Mouse" music in the '30s, when whole orchestras simply hurtled into the bass clef...
...Boccherini's Quintets, sparkling with gaiety and glowing with warm Italian exuberance, have been polished up and lovingly presented on four LPs with two more to come (Quintette Boccherini; Angel). All of Haydn's 80-odd Quartets were planned for recording, and 47 were put on vinyl by the Haydn Society before it went down to noble defeat (1955) and had to go out of business. Almost all of Beethoven's chamber music has been recorded and most of Mozart's (good recent Mozart bets: two versions of four gracious, lighthearted Flute Quartets, on Vanguard...
...their small breasts, though he had them screened by a psychiatrist to be sure that none had more deep-seated mental illnesses (an equal number were turned away on this score). Instead of natural fat, Dr. Edgerton used a form of built-in falsies made of a poly vinyl sponge called Ivalon. Checked by psychiatrists after their operations, all patients showed a reduction in their feelings of "inadequacy" and "depression," though one insisted on wearing outer falsies as well. Two later nursed their babies with no trouble...
...immense variety from symphony orchestras and chamber-music groups, from hallowed opera houses and bare school auditoriums. The music was modern and ancient, classic and romantic, expertly and miserably played. There was so much of it that the whole U.S. recording industry could not get it down on vinyl and all the hi-fi sets in the U.S. could not play it back...