Word: vinylize
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After snowless skiing, iceless skating. At least Vinyl Plastics Inc. thinks so and has developed a warm, dry, milky-white synthetic surface that has been a hit at New York's and Philadelphia's winter sports shows, and almost lives up to its trade name, Slick. It is smooth as ice but 20% slower. Its great advantage is cost?$38,000 for a standard rink v. $300,000 for artificial ice. Skates bite easily into the surface, which has a guaranteed life of three years. Says Professional Ice Skater Randolph McCulley: "You can't cheat on Slick...
After more than a year of hoping, Harvard's varsity track team will finally get a new home--a $300,000 inflatable, vinyl-coated, nylon "bubble...
...lowliest guitar. They can walk on Piero Gilardi's soft polyurethane carpet and be amazed when they do, for it is sculpted to look exactly like a bed of stones. Or they can tie themselves up in knots with Robert Israel's 35-foot-long Dacron and vinyl python titled Progress...
Eyebrow Plucking. Leader of the bareness-now, right now, school is still Rudi Gernreich, whose 1964 topless set off the exposure explosion. In his 1968 collection, he compromises slightly by using see-through vinyl to hold together the tops and bottoms of his bathing suits. He says: "Only the areas that must be covered are covered-with wool knit." But at least he concedes that coverable areas exist, which for Gernreich is something...
...comically arch-typical family group. The Smurtz of Mr. Moss's staging is still a physical butt, who in the progress of three acts is whipped, stabbed, clouted and generally knocked about by a group of people who refuse even to recognize his existence. But dressed in a vinyl union suit blazoned with commercial trade-marks (Bufferin, Vat 69, Rise) and bits of Old Glory, he is now something else, something both more and less than Vian's Smurtz...