Word: vinyl
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...come from junior high schools. We were weaned and scrubbed in their vinyl bassinets and many of us haven't been able to dirty ourselves ever since. Last week, I returned to one of the scenes of our collective baptism, a junior high on Long Island. I didn't formerly attend this particular school, but what reason was there to suspect that it was any different than my own, a thousand miles away...
...Frame expresses it in the poetry that threads the novel: "It is the company of weather I crave in this weatherless room/the thermometer reads me only." In the Waipori of the future, the problem of establishing existence would be even more terrifying. If a plastic tree topples into the vinyl grass, does it make a sound if the forest is not electronically bugged...
...squaw sits easily by the chasm ledge and waits. Forever she has been gazing at the purple canyon wall opposite her and now she feels the moment of the mystery approaching. Her arms are heavy ropes holding to her a brown young brave, his electric hair bound by a vinyl red band. An arrow-bodied boy with a sweet thing not yet grown callous with age and hard use. He is astonished and shaking, his body shimmers in sweat...
Ridiculously Real. Fabric added a new depth of characterization to his art, making the figures seem more real and all the more ridiculous. There followed works in linen and shiny vinyl, a material that marvelously captured the slick airs and plastic emptiness of city sophistication. The aluminum sculptures reflect a more tender view of human nature. Several celebrate the joys of parenthood. Women, too, appear in a more sensuous and loving light...
...short, pleated skirts but covered most with midi-length coats, while Jacques Esterel's "he and she" collection featured tunics all round, ankle length and so narrowly cut as to be equally hobbling for either sex. Courrèges lowered his sights with a floor-length black vinyl apron atop flaming red briefs. (It is not the most practical outfit, but that did not seem to matter when Raquel Welch modeled it.) Mostly, Courrèges fell back on the old jumpsuits, made of vinyl and stickier than ever, with cutouts cut out wherever the scissors...