Word: vinyl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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QUINCY'S BARREN modernity needs few alterations to take on the incarnation of a hotel. The bare carpet and vinyl furniture are not innately dramatic, but Fitzpatrick uses the room to its fullest. With three simple table lamps he creates moments of horror and tension all the more stirring because they do not rely on stage-lighting techniques. He exploits all the dramatic possibilities of the room's split levels and often brings the actors into and behind the audience. This intimacy serves Strindberg's work well. Rarely do more than two people appear at once in the play...
...jacket also tells us that the person playing the piano on the vinyl is named Hargus "Pig" Robbins and that Slim has cut a single entitled "Where Is the Christ in Christmas?" It is everything one can do to peel the plastic off the cover...
...elements of house transformation are often functional. Additions provide needed space as the family grows or help shelter automobiles. In Staten Island, one elderly man who had no use for his garage turned it into a glassed-in living room, retaining the sliding garage door. The aluminum or vinyl sidings are supposed to help save on the heating bill or protect deteriorating facades. Picture windows give more light and the appearance of being up-to-date. "If something is old, you should get rid of it and go toward the future," a Hoboken, N.J., homeowner told Vergara. "Time...
Finally, "The Golden Illusion", an area DJ. will spin his vinyl noise-makers in Mores Dining Hall from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday evening. The admission fee is a whopping $5, and probably not worth...
...Harvard Lampoon knows it. The 'Poon has dissected People, pared it down to its vinyl soul and looked inside. The Lampoon did not look for a heart of darkness and did not find one; what appears instead is a catalogue of foibles, not sins, in a nation of genial losers. All is well, if not exactly perfect, in the land of Brooke and Bo. Incidentally, the whole thing is pretty funny...