Word: decalcomania
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...cool rationality, much as a calcium-deficient child is moved to nibble plaster off the wall. Miss Terry's style of gut theater fits in with this new act-it-out, confrontation mode. But the excitement of real life does not transfer to the stage like a decalcomania. The endocrine charge is missing from Ranchman, leaving only some pleasant kids making a lot of sound and fury. To what avail...
...president of Chicago's Meyercord Co., Leonard Henry Knopf, 52, is the world's decalcomania*king. Housewives use plastic or paper decals to decorate kitchen and nursery walls. Small fry, who call decals "cockomamies," paste them on their arms to simulate tattoos. Businessmen use them in hundreds of ways: for trademarks on vending machines, store windows and products; for instructions on tractors, life rafts and planes (a 6-29 requires 2,700 decals); for tax stamps on cigarette packages. Even casketmakers...
...Literal meaning: a mania for transferring drawings. Decalcomania designs, made of inks, plastics, lacquers or varnishes, are transferred from coated paper to another surface by moisture, heat, pressure or chemical action...
...most part by ladies in seclusion, school girls, and invalids, who painted the bodies and backgrounds in the winter and sought the heads in the summer months, these paintings are examples of the art that flourished years past in America. No iron stags, cigar store Indians, or decalcomania decorated coaches and engines are represented in this exhibit, but the show does include the more accessible forms of ancient art such as model cartoons for tattooers...
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