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...veneration of grossness and fatness," says Feminist Author Kate Millett (Sexual Politics) of the Amazonian anatomies she has sculpted out of papier-mâché, chicken wire and liquid cement. Kate's nine-foot sculptures, titled Naked Ladies, go on display next week at the Los Angeles Woman's Building. "I don't know where they came from," muses Millett, 42, who has been sculpting for 18 years. "I guess I just wanted to play around." Among the sculptures: a giant woman pushing a shopping cart, a housewife watching the soaps and chatting on the phone...
...eminence of Edinburgh's leading printer-engraver. Bell stands only 4 feet 6 inches tall and has a huge nose, but he disarms the mockery of others by making mock of himself. He mounts his giant horse with the aid of a ladder, carrying with him a papier-mache nose to enlarge...
BLACK-CLAD DEVILS hang from a lattice-like set, the Seven Deadly Sins stalk the stage holding papier mache animal masks and a blueleotarded Good Angel sits perched on a platform above a placarded face that radiates heavenly sincerity. It's an impressive spectacle, a testament to the superb technical direction that characterizes the Leverett House Arts Society's production of Doctor Faustus. Unlike most Houses, Leverett has its own theatre, and director Evangeline Morphos has made the most of its facilities, skillfully transforming the entire room into a three-dimensional world where the forces of evil clash colorfully with...
This bizarre rite is the merchant's way of thanking the lion. The lettuce and the tangerine are purely symbolic; however, the red envelope is full of money, money used to defray the expense of the $400 papier mache lion head, imported from Hong Kong, and the Kwangtung, China, fireworks...
Unlike many independently wealthy ambassadors, Moynihan lives entirely off his $44,600 U.N. salary. The Moynihans are provided with the Waldorf suite, a car and a driver. But their only servant is Hives, a life-sized papier-mache butler who stands at the door of the apartment wearing the castaway clothes of a warm-blooded English butler who once worked for them. The figure is the creation of their son Tim. With all three children away at school, Hives and a wire-haired fox terrier named...