Word: papier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest, O'Horgan simply grubs around in his museum of Halloweens Past and bemuses the audience with such papier-mäché wonders as a huge walking dental plate. The faggy odor of the show may be sniffed at its gamiest in a Beef Trust chorus-girl number featuring women padded out with lardy stomachs and grossly enlarged behinds...
...brief time, the game had all the earmarks of an upset. Columbia had just intercepted a Milt Holt pass and driven through the papier-mache-like Harvard defense for 45 yards and a touchdown...
Representatives of the New American Movement (NAM) protested Rockefeller's speech, dressed in [papier mache costumes of Rockefeller, Nixon and kissinger. The group, led by peter S. Hogness '76, presented Rockefeller with the first annual Capitalist of the Year award, for being the "biggest and most odious capitalist around...
Over the years, store-window dummies have gone through almost as many phases as their garments. Early mannequins were sculpted from wax, and had a tendency to droop and drip in sunny display windows. Later came models of plaster, papier-mache and several varieties of more durable plastic. Though small boutiques balk at the idea of discarding outmoded dummies (average price: $300), most larger stores oust passe mannequins as quickly as last season's duds. But groupings, which can be easily rearranged into different patterns, may have a longer life than most individual mannequins...
...spirited counter-re-enactment was pre-arranged with the officials of Boston 200; what followed was not. While the voice on the loudspeaker called out instructions, one of the People's Bicentennial boats circled the harbor with a large papier mache caricature of Nixon as its passenger. The voice on the loudspeaker worked the crowd expertly. Should Nixon be taken to the Beaver and hung? The crowd said yes. Should Nixon be impeached? The crowd said...