Word: papier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shylock. He is modest, kindly, generous, and long suffering. Rosenberg quotes extensively from Cumberland's Memoirs and his articles in The Observer to prove Cumberland's didactic motives. Rosenberg concludes, "In view of Cumberland's instructive biases as a playwright generally, we need not, then, be surprised by the papier-mache figure that Sheva is made to cut. He is plainly little more than a pawn--not in the plot, but of the message behind the plot. 'I take credit myself,' Cumberland writes . . ., 'for the character of Abraham Abrahams. I wrote it upon principle, thinking it high time that something...
...belly boites, with their papier-mâché palm trees or hand-painted Ionic columns, heretofore existed mainly on the patronage of Greek and Turkish families. Customers often bring their children; between performances, enthusiastic young men from the audience will take the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces. Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption. Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka...
...sympathies of Japan's emotional voters behind the opposition Socialists, a right-wing fanatic assassinated Socialist Party Boss Inejiro Asanuma. But last week, when election workers finished counting up nearly 40 million ballots, elated Liberal-Democratic Premier Hayato Ikeda carefully began to ink in the eyes of a papier-maché daruma doll-a duty prescribed by Japanese custom for a man who has attained a cherished goal...
They did just fine. A staff of six devoted a full two months to the project, consulted occasionally with Artist Artzybasheff, and produced seven lively models-made of Styrofoam with a papier-maché; and plastic covering. The wide-eyed, camera-wielding Tiros caricature became a wonderfully evocative, 8-ft.-wide monster; and the nose on the 8-ft.-long Vanguard III would arouse the envy of even Los Angeles Neighbor Jimmy Durante...
...Emperor was not permitted to see his grandson for 48 hours, but sent traditional gifts-a papier-máché dog with amulet to ward off diseases, a wooden doll to symbolize the coming of a "heavenly child," a seven-inch "sword of protection" wrapped in red brocade. At the Naming Ceremony, a chamberlain presented the Emperor with a specially woven sheet of paper containing the three possible names submitted by the grand chamberlain (final choice: Naruhito Hironomiya). It was almost as if nothing had changed since Akihito himself was born 27 years...