Word: plaster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conditions in the apartment gave substance to her words. Two children of preschool age were using the living room as a playpen, several times coming dangerously close to extinction from electrical wiring, paperweights, and other threatening objects. The kitchen, its plaster peeling, was too narrow to contain an ironing board and chair; and the bedroom, far from copious, held two beds and a cradle...
...Almost everything that could be done wrong the moviemakers have done wrong in this production, and yet somehow the picture comes out remarkably right. The film oversanitizes Pal Joey's original fun-and-gaminess and, what's worse, imprisons the show's vitality in a plaster cast. As the young love interest, Kim just trudges around in the well-known Novakuum, and Rita Hayworth, especially when she sings her big song (Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered), still sounds the siren, but where's the fire...
...scope of the publication is wide enough to include plaster sculptures done in Arch Sci 31, and even set designs by John Ratte for undergraduate theatrical productions last year...
Half an hour after midnight the city was rocked by a thunderous dynamite blast that shattered a wing of the seven-year-old, $500,000 Hattie Cotton Elementary School where one five-year-old Negro girl had registered the day before. The blast ripped doors off hinges, cracked plaster and scattered bricks and glass in thick, ugly layers across the surrounding schoolyard and walks. "A hellish explosion-just like God had whispered in my ear," said one nearby resident...
...artist might rush to his easel to sketch the characters he had encountered in a day, Chaney would go home to his makeup kit and superimpose upon his own flesh the faces he had studied in police courts, water front dives and cafés. With putty and plaster, collodion-created scars, false teeth, wigs, facial clamps, cotton stuffing and rubber dilaters, Actor Chaney would be somebody else - an art he found most expedient in the days when the studios made their daily castings at first glance and strictly according to script-dictated types...