Word: plaster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office, no single piece of paper is ever in evidence unless he is working on it. But the material he may be inspecting or cataloguing would stand an ordinary layman's hair on end -elaborate, erotic instruments and devices from Japan, wildly obscene picture books, Austrian etchings and plaster models that would make a call girl blush...
...building, are flexibility and low operating cost. The new plant is supposed to save 37% in the time necessary to put on a show. Everything-from raw materials to finished product-is under one roof: rehearsal halls, four studios, a 35-man carpentry shop, a paint shop, even a plaster shop that makes everything from fake balustrades to bottles that shatter when bounced lightly off an actor's head. CBS can also store, for quick reuse, all its scenery and sets (in Manhattan the company spends about $40,000 a week just trucking sets to & from the studios...
...Plaster Paneling. Fondly eying the amateur home fixers, U.S. Gypsum Co. showed off its new sheetrock gypsum wallboard, which it hopes will replace plywood for many uses. The board is fire-resistant, sound-dampening, and can be easily glued to old plaster walls or any other smooth surface. Panels are 16 in. wide and 8 to 10 ft. long, come in plain, knotty pine and striated finishes, and they can easily be cut with a penknife. Price...
...Plaster Fell." Happy as he is with his art, Goodman thinks the timpanist's skill is not sufficiently understood. He doubts whether even conductors-since few have ever been timpanists themselves -can thoroughly appreciate the subtleties of a kettledrummer's tone and pitch. But only the deaf can miss it when the percussion comes in wrong...
...Eighteen Violins. The trouble was that the whole percussion section, which had no part in the violin piece, began playing the next piece on its music racks-Khacha-turian's Symphony No. 2-which opens with a crashing, jangling blast. "We raised the roof," says Goodman. "The plaster fell." Stokowski allowed them to hammer away happily for eight whole bars before they skidded to a stop. It has never happened again...