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...Plastic Patina. Some contemporary sculpture now jostling for Liebensraum in the living room cries less for the patina of age than for the quick eye jab of bright plastic paint. The result is a spate of new polychromists (see opposite page). Among them...
...secretly ashamed. This will be a campaign to sicken decent and thoughtful people, and the bitterness it will distill will linger long in our national life." The Chicago Daily News found that "for the zealots," Goldwater "has the invaluable ability to give a latent, fear-born prejudice a patina of respectability and plausibility." To the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The Goldwater coalition is a coalition of Southern racists, county-seat conservatives, desert rightist radicals and suburban backlashers...
Eventually Barye got a sinecure as professor of animal drawing at the Paris zoological museum. Until his death in 1875, he maintained his own foundry. He filed down his casts to hair-fine detail, worked his own warm greenish-brown patina into their glittery pelts. After Barye's death, a wholesale Paris founder named Barbédienne began casting Barye's sculptures by droves with the help of a new reproducing machine that the founder claimed "did for sculpture what Gutenberg had long before done for the written thought." The machine triumphed: cheap copies of the work...
...overstating the case. Since the end of World War II, Flanders has capitalized on a healthy dollop of U.S. aid to industrialize and acquire a patina of prosperity, while Wallonia, with its played-out coal mines, has been plagued by chronic unemployment. Last year, when violent riots broke out between the two factions, the Flemish majority in Parliament passed a law dividing Belgium into two separate unilingual sections along a line extending from the German border south of Aachen to the French frontier; to the north, Flemish would be the official language in schools, courts and administrative offices...
...extracted. This was done slowly and painfully by water jets and scraping tools inserted through the cracks. Then the outside surface was brushed, baked in an oven and treated to cure blisters and a surface condition that Greek archaeologists call "bronze tuberculosis." At last the kouros acquired a patina almost as soft and mellow as the one that first attracted Connoisseur Sulla, and the young man looks much as he did when he stood in some ancient temple. His grace and balance, his strength mixed with beauty, give the ideals of the Greeks one more victory over time...