Word: vinyl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like something peeled off the kitchen table. It makes raincoats seem wet before they are out of the closet and slacks look as though their wearer had just stepped out of a rocket ship. It is the latest gift from the U.S. to the haute couture. It's vinyl...
...Banners waving, confetti streaming, cannons booming, and thousands of broadly smiling Washingtonians on official holiday (their second in as many weeks) crowding the elm-lined length of Pennsylvania Avenue in the abnormal (for Washington) 60 degree weather, the stately pearl gray Lincoln Continental limousine, dappled sunlight glinting from its vinyl roof, preceded by a 50-girl corps of the fairest drum-majorettes in a city renowned for them (having produced eight national winners since 1955), sandwiched between sixteen marching bands (especially flown in for the occasion from Bancouver) playing the works of John Sousa and Edward Elgar while live television...
...Right Pocks. In this new wave of wax museums, the figures are not really made of wax but of a plastic called vinyl plestisol, which, in addition to being fireproof, does not have the glossy sheen that tends to make wax figures look like wax figures. In charge of creating them is Earl Dorfman, 48, who used to do department-store window displays...
...sponge. Burned areas may be cut out and replaced without showing edges or a patched look. Eliminated are the hazards of slippery floors, the work of polishing to make them slippery, the breakage of any dropped plate or glass, and the fatigue of the stand-up kitchen walkathon on vinyl or linoleum. The price...
...Plastic" paint, as many artists call it, is made from acrylic and vinyl resins consisting of emulsion polymers, long strands of molecules floating in water. Wound into these strands, like prickles on barbed wire, are standard pigments. When the water evaporates, polymers and pigments bind into a film that is actually waterproof and can be scrubbed with soap and water...