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...beginning of the show may seem promising to most but foretells ultimate doom to us hard-core Tommy connoisseurs. A crowd of actors wearing "interpretational" black costumes of various sorts--most of the men are in leather or vinyl pants, and one tall woman wears her hair in disgustingly cute pigtails--belt out the dates and settings of scenes in incomprehensible British accents. They go on to mimic war planes, perform a bad faux jitterbug that's not even in Townshend's original score and basically stand around looking useless for irritatingly long periods of time...
People wore such tactile fabrics as leather, vinyl, velvet and silk. Pershouse says an important feature of the event was the "suggestive invitation" that people could send to "their crushes...
People wore such tactile fabrics as leather,vinyl, velvet and silk. Pershouse says animportant feature of the event was the "suggestiveinvitation" that people could send to "theircrushes...
Your article used selective citation of the facts, disregarded contradictory science and omitted nonsupportive sources. The fact is, vinyl medical products have been used safely for more than 40 years. They have been subjected to decades of testing, and they have consistently delivered reliable service under the most demanding conditions, such as cardiac surgery, blood transfusions and kidney dialysis. You should have quoted the Food and Drug Administration on this issue. The FDA does not see this as a matter of pressing concern, nor do many other medical authorities whose views were not included in this piece. MARK A. SOFMAN...
...truth, Bakelite--whose more chemically formal name is polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride--was just a harbinger of the age of plastics. Since Bakelite's heyday, researchers have churned out a polysyllabic catalog of plastics: polymethylmethacrylate (Plexiglas), polyesters, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC, a.k.a. vinyl), polyhexamethylene adipamide (the original nylon polymer), polytetraperfluoroethylene (Teflon), polyurethane, poly- this, poly-that...