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...purple evening light disappeared behind the banks of stadium lights and the New Jersey air fell like volcanic ash on the sunburned crowd. They had come in overheated Plymouths and air-conditioned Buicks, tiny soccer balls and cleats dangling from their mirrors, Budweiser coolers nestled on the front-seat vinyl. The trail of tail lights had meandered slowly into the asphalt moat that ringed the stadium. A voice had announced that the game would be delayed because hundreds of fans were trapped in Lincoln Tunnel...
According to its boosters, the Lear Fan could well reshape general aviation technology. The lightweight airframe is made from rolls of graphite mixed with epoxy resin wrapped around molds like vinyl wallpaper and then baked under pressure in an oven the size of a boxcar. The unpainted fuselage looks like a black plastic drainpipe but it is as tough as titanium; only carbide-tipped drills can cut through it. Pratt & Whitney engines concealed in each side of the plane drive the distinctive 90-in. propeller sticking out of the back of the plane. Because it weighs only...
...network television cameras panned and probed across the United States last week, searching for high political drama. They found it along Chicago's State Street on St. Patrick's Day. Mayor Jane Byrne, in a Day-Glo green vinyl cap and swathed in the luxurious fur of numerous martens, towed an uncomfortable Senator Kennedy through what used to be Mayor Richard Daley's scruffy but functional precincts. The lung power of the combined brass bands of the great city was unable to drown out the boos. Daley surely turned a bit in Holy Sepulcher cemetery...
Brian Eno put some of the very best and worst of it on vinyl when he produced the No New York compilation for Antilles records. The Contortions, DNA, Mars, and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks shared a common aesthetic. They shrieked while the punks merely chastised. They ripped their emotional guts up for the chance to play for the punky-elitist crowds. They derived their manifestos primarily from the world of visual art: take a dib of dada and a dab of '60s self-destruction and you have no wave...
...marriage to Ronnie, lead singer of the Ronettes, broke up in 1973. He was in at least one serious auto accident and underwent extensive surgery and facial restoration. His records after that-albums by Dion and Leonard Cohen, singles by Cher and Darlene Love-were as black as the vinyl they were pressed on. Even the upbeat numbers sounded funereal. The little symphonies became requiems celebrated inside a Wurlitzer...