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...just the right fit for Moore's work, which can seem both powerfully natural and shrewdly cultivated. For "Moore at Kew," the vast show that opened there in September and remains through the end of March, 27 of his large bronzes and one massive figure in white fiberglass have been set to advantage all around Kew's elegant acreage. Silhouetted against Kew's white pavilions and specimen plantings, his massive Double Oval from 1966 has the power and strangeness that marks the best of Moore's work. And his work that's less than the best? The lawns...
...says caretaker Soraida Salwala, founder of the hospital. "I had heard of prosthetics for birds and dogs, but nothing had ever been made for an elephant." So well has Motala adjusted to her new foot, however, that doctors are already designing a lighter, sturdier replacement for her made of fiberglass and silicone...
...possibility of a confrontation with the Lebanese army appears to be playing on the minds of the PFLP-GC. The entrance to a PFLP-GC base at Naameh in the coastal hills nine miles south of Beirut has been reinforced recently with sandbags and fiberglass tubs filled with earth. A uniformed gunman pulled a wool mask over his face at the approach of a TIME correspondent. As he called his commander by field telephone, a dozen other heavily armed fighters emerged from a small trail running into the brush-covered hillside beside a long-abandoned factory partially destroyed by years...
...handmade designs they can be sure very few people have. "I want to celebrate life and the imperfections inherent in my raw materials," Singh says. "My designs therefore come out very edgy." He is currently preoccupied with figuring out how to turn other kinds of leftovers-such as fiberglass resin that's sprayed on plastic bathtubs-into furniture. "I keep believing that if I do this, this world would be nicer," he says. There might be a few more teak trees left standing...
Back at an undisclosed location, our amateur framed up the wall, settled it into place, and even installed a pre-hung door. Then, to block out his noisy suitemates, the blossoming general contractor installed bright pink R-13 fiberglass insulation and sound deadening panels, which he admits even the courteous Home Depot employee dubbed “overkill.” As a finishing touch, he used wood veneer paneling to give the room a flower power, Brady Bunch house feel...