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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...
...After high school, Sendak took a job with a Manhattan window-display house, where he constructed papier-mache and plaster models, including Snow White and the seven dwarfs. "It was the schlock of the 1930s that made up my creative mentality," says Sendak. He continues: "Two years ago, I saw Walt Disney's Pinocchio and loved it, even though the Blue Fairy looked like Joan Bennett and Cleo the Goldfish looked like a drag queen...
Died. Stanley Glaubach, 48, prolific graphic designer and artist whose wry sculptures in plastic, papier-máché and other materials appeared on the covers of Esquire, New York and, on six occasions last year, TIME (most recently: TIME's nutrition cover, Dec. 18); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...folk arts. Where a break in the craft tradition has never occurred, the results are most successful--for example, plates and pitchers of iron inlaid with silver from Daghestan, and silver filigree jewelry, from Georgia. Two showcases display the products of lacquer-work masters from Ralekh--little papier-mache boxes, decorated with elaborate designs in egg-tempera (often depicting the exploits of Russian fairy-tale heroes), coated with transparent lacquer, then dried and highly polished. One box astonishes: a winter's scene of three youngsters in a troika superimposed on an oval plate of mother-of-pearl to simulate...