Word: vinylize
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...only fair to hail Harris as an acoustics virtuoso. Harris' secret, if it can be called that, is to stick as closely as possible to classic European models like Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal. That means a rectangular shape, plenty of wood and plaster, no concrete or vinyl, and a minimum of carpeting and plush upholstery on chairs. Harris has made his chairs of oak and carefully tested foam cushions. He has even installed individual lockers in access corridors to encourage dowagers to leave their fur coats outside the music-making area...
...with VC. Although the EPA's decision sets a precedent for protecting human health from potentially toxic substances, it hardly compares in impact to the action by the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The agency established final limits for workers' exposure to vinyl chloride (vc), a colorless gas derived from chlorine and petrochemicals. It is the major ingredient in polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-the material from which seat covers, phonograph records, credit cards, detergent containers, floor tiles, shower curtains, and a vast number of other familiar plastic products are made. In total, a recent...
...Environmental Protection Agency also got into the act, announcing that it will set air-pollution standards for vinyl chloride. A special EPA task force has found that more than 200 million Ibs. of vc and 50 million Ibs. of PVC are being discharged into the environment during the conversion process. In other words, people who live downwind of factories that make PVC might also unknowingly be getting a whiff of the gas. Two cases of angiosarcoma have in fact been reported in people whose houses were near a PVC plant in Bridgeport, Conn...
...ambitious publishing project-the McGraw-Hill five-volume facsimile of the so-called Madrid codices: two recently discovered Leonardo notebooks, edited and translated by the late technological historian Ladislao Reti, to be published this month at $400 the set ($750 de luxe) and bound, rather bathetically, in red vinyl morocco. The codices themselves are incomparable...
Despite the vinyl shortage, a steady outpouring of classical record reissues continues to flow, re-entering the musical mainstream in performances loftily described by such labels as great (Seraphim), legendary (Columbia) and even immortal (RCA). The reasons? The timeless appeal of genius is certainly one, but economics is a powerful factor too: it costs less to recycle a golden oldie than to make a new record. The following are among the best of the recent rereleases...