Word: vinyl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eyebrow Plucking. Leader of the bareness-now, right now, school is still Rudi Gernreich, whose 1964 topless set off the exposure explosion. In his 1968 collection, he compromises slightly by using see-through vinyl to hold together the tops and bottoms of his bathing suits. He says: "Only the areas that must be covered are covered-with wool knit." But at least he concedes that coverable areas exist, which for Gernreich is something...
...spotlights swept the sky when it happened. No vinyl microskirted star lets babbled by; no gawkers gathered under a spangled marquee. Yet the event was as important as any premiere in Hollywood history. On the day in 1966 when Jack Warner sold his studio to the parvenu Seven Arts Productions, a new movie epoch began...
...comically arch-typical family group. The Smurtz of Mr. Moss's staging is still a physical butt, who in the progress of three acts is whipped, stabbed, clouted and generally knocked about by a group of people who refuse even to recognize his existence. But dressed in a vinyl union suit blazoned with commercial trade-marks (Bufferin, Vat 69, Rise) and bits of Old Glory, he is now something else, something both more and less than Vian's Smurtz...
BEETHOVEN: SONATA NO. 32 IN C MINOR, OP. 111 (Vanguard). Australian Pianist Bruce Hungerford won critical hurrahs in 1965 when he played five Beethoven sonatas in Carnegie Hall, and the reason is now engraved on vinyl. His interpretation of this late (written five years before the master's death) great two-movement sonata is extremely moving-the first furious buildup dissolving into a tender singing adagio that transcends all that went before...
...matching leather shirt, laced up the front. Roman Tailor Angelo Litrico, who has made suits for John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Dr. Christiaan Barnard, claimed inspiration from the astronauts; he showed, reading from top to bottom, a visored crash helmet, zippered jacket and wide-striped trousers tucked inside vinyl knee boots. John Glenn will hardly recognize himself...