Word: papier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SOMEBODY IN the Mudhead Masks acting troupe designs a mean papier-mache horsehead, but he neglected to make sure the horse's socks matched. As a result, Dan Rice's Wife Maggie's Incredible Educated Horse, as it capers about reading the hour off Dan's gold watch, displays a pair of red socks, a pair of lavender, and a pair of polka-dot. Not exactly your prime specimen of pre-Civil War humor...
...primarily young, but older people join in as well, swelling the ranks from curb to curb, wall-to-wall humanity stretching as far as the eye can see. Some of the demonstrators wear elaborate costumes, macabre bursts of imagination that pantomime the approach of death. Others carry posters and papier-mâché displays, an explosion of street art mocking the U.S., tearing with outrageous simplicity at the fabric of mutual interest that the U.S. and Western Europe have woven so patiently for 30 years. The signs vilify: "We are not America's Guinea Pigs," "Today's Children are Tomorrow...
From the middle of the wire-strewn mainstage you can spot about a dozen of them, hanging lights or spattering paint on flats, or plunging up to the elbows in papier-mache. Some are here because "I couldn't stand to look at my math homework anymore," some to get "comps"--complimentary tickets available to anyone who helps "put in" a Loeb production. Some settle down to fingerpaint the platforms and Grecian arches for two hours because they will deliver Shakespearean soliloquies from them in a few days, or because, like Peter Miller, they are the set designer...
...Cafe Grossenvahn. So do the musicians, poets, actors, homosexuals, and foreigners. The regulars all know each other, and people wander from table to table greeting friends. Everyone discusses art-art and politics, art and money, art and friendship. Towering above the smoke and the wooden tables, a papier-mache man with chicken-wire hands stares at people as they walk in. The man wears black clothes and one gold carring. One of the waiters built...
Marty Seigmeister, Dining hall manager, said a gymnasium, site of a planned Thanksgiving feast, will be "rather charming" with some decorations. "Perhaps a couple of papier-mache turkeys will be strung from the ceiling," he added...