Word: papier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest overseas industrial exhibition that Red China has yet attempted, the entrance to Tokyo's International Trade Fair Hall was transformed into a five-story reproduction of a Mandarin palace. A pair of ferocious papier-mache lions guarded the doors. On opening day firecrackers sputtered, a red and gold dragon writhed in the streets and clouds of confetti burst over the eager crowds. Then it rained for a week and the lions began to come apart. By last week the enthusiasm for the fair of many of Tokyo's businessmen, who have been clamoring for free trade with...
...first things the America undertaker changed was the old "wooden overcoat." In an age when the grave robber and the medical student were supposedly working hand in glove, "safe" coffins, made at first of iron, came in vogue. Soon there were models in zinc, glass terra cotta, papier-mâché, hydraulic cement and vulcanized rubber. The coffin torpedo, marketed in 1878, was the final answer to body snatchers-it featured a bomb that was triggered to go off when the coffin lid was lifted. However, the triumph of sepulchral gadgeteering was the "life signal," which offered mechanical surcease...
Compared to the papier-maché heroes of most Hollywood westerns, Davy Crockett is filled with engaging human imperfections : he loses his first hand-to-hand battle with the Indian chief, Red Stick, and only succeeds in overcoming villainous Mike Mazurki by biting his opponent's thumb. There are some stereotypes-Buddy Ebsen has the familiar role of the trusty pal, and Hans Conreid plays a cowardly gambler with synthetic W. C. Fields flourishes. But, all in all, Davy makes his giant-sized legend come as truly alive as that of Mike Fink, the river boatman, or Paul Bunyan...
...posters, the papier decoupes and the decorative works, Matisse arrived at that "condensation" towards which his later paintings and drawings seemed to be moving. Its virtue are a profound simplicity of design and powerful use of color. A backlog of 50 years of technical knowledge imparts surety and strength to his childlike visions...
...conference of the leaders of any but the friendliest of nations contains two almost insurmountable handicaps. If final decisions are made, they are often hasty and ill-considered, based sometimes on factors as weak as personal bonds. The papier-mache treaty structure of the decade following the first world war and the conferences of the second, all the result of "high-level conversations," are indisputable proof of this handicap. The second grave defect is that meetings at the summit often will produce only propaganda and enmity. In actuality, the forthcoming four-power meeting will not be mainly among the heads...