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Ever since The Little Drummer Boy laid down his perfectly honed snare patterns, rock and roll has been a cherished part of the holiday season Each successive yuletide finds a fresh crop of both new and established artists anxiously pressing the vinyl to make their versions of Christmas pop the best...
Nearly all radio disc jockeys are cut from the same cloth: polyester. For the self-consciously hip veejays of MTV, the style is leather and vinyl. Earnest and anodyne, Mark Goodman may spin rebellious new-wave video platters, but no teeny-bopper daughter would be afraid to bring him home to meet Daddy. Nina Blackwood, sultry and sloe-eyed, evokes a Los Angeles chic that contrasts neatly with Martha Quinn's preppie punk...
...dramas, Sackler fashioned grand canvases on which self-determined men clashed against their environment. He was also a poet, screenwriter (who contributed to Jaws, then wrote Jaws 2), and director for Caedmon Records, responsible for putting the words of such writers as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and James Joyce onto vinyl...
About 20 medieval fighters, some wearing brightly-colored tunies and vinyl attracted much attention around the Quad Sunday afternoon as they battled with swords, spears, polearms, shields, and armor in their first "practice" at Harvard...
There is nothing wrong with loving nature. The trouble is that in the commercial rush to exploit this popular sentiment the notion of what is natural is getting stretched absurdly out of shape. It is even possible these days to see references to colors called natural vinyl and natural nylon. Considering nature's own glaring penchant for diverse and gaudy colors, it is illogical that any anemic shade should be called (as convention calls it) natural. And it is preposterous to put that label on synthetic stuff. If man-made plastics possess a natural color, then it is fair...