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...portable radio has failed right in the middle of the station's 14th daily airing of Shaun Cassidy's latest hit. Maybe the family mastiff took a nap atop Shaun's two albums (combined sales: 5 million copies), warping them into a couple of vinyl flapjacks. Maybe the picture tube in the TV blew out, and she will miss Shaun in this week's installment of The Hardy Boys. Maybe she has heard Shaun announce that because of assorted pressures, "I may never be able to have a relationship that lasts more than a few months...
...Lumet has staged extravagant dances at the towers' base. The sunken plaza was covered over with Plexiglas, and 300 dancers, lit by spotlights from below, pound away on top. Lumet wanted to turn the Brooklyn Bridge into the Yellow Brick Road by putting down 25 miles of yellow vinyl. The New York police gave him a firm no, however, and he settled for paving a footbridge over the East River...
...against hypertension, or high blood pressure. Now she merely stops by a shopping center near her home, where she consults a curious-looking machine that resembles an armrest-equipped chair in a college lecture hall. Taking a seat, Mrs. Williams rolls up her sleeve, puts her arm into a vinyl cuff, deposits 50? in the slot and pushes a button. On the console in front of her, the words light up, TESTING-REMAIN STILL. The vinyl cuff tightens noticeably around her arm. Moments later her blood pressure flashes on the screen...
...been proved to be responsible for up to 40% of all human cancers; for example, doctors have found a high incidence of an otherwise rare form of lung cancer in workers exposed to asbestos, and are discovering another rare form of liver cancer among those who have worked with vinyl chloride. In 1958, a British physician named John Higginson was challenged by a skeptical scientific community when he suggested that 70% to 80% of all cancers are environmental in origin. Now many scientists suspect that the actual figure may be closer...
...conference table to phone his stockbroker. Beep. A volunteer fireman in Rockville Center, N.Y., jumps out of bed and into his uniform. Bweet. A Houston truck driver has a new delivery; and across town-bip-bip-an airline stewardess leaves her restaurant table to report for duty. Bweet. A vinyl-booted siren strutting her stuff on Times Square has a call-in customer...