Word: plaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overflow gallery was on hand to watch the top seven seeds plaster the Big Green in the two-tiered squash complex, dubbed the Hanover Coliseum by the visiting racquetmen and sometimes fondly referred to as "Hangover Coliseum...
...variations in these works aren't due to he whims of a sculptor, but to the techniques used in the foundry of the man who cast them. These works are not pieces of marble carefully carved by one person, they are bronze and plaster versions of a work originally done in wax or clay, and then used to make a mold. With the help of elaborate measuring devices, a work could be (legally or illegally) copied in marble or clay. Sometimes the original artist supervised the reproduction process. In other cases he did not participate at all or the works...
...works--a highly specialized sample of the art of sculpture between 1778 and 1914, The differences between works are minute, and either an expert's eye or the $35 catalogue is needed in order to recognize the differences between one "Lion Attacking a Serpent" made from a plaster mold, and another made from a gelatin mold. Each mold makes a particular kind of scratch on the surface of the piece, which an uninitiated viewer can easily overlook...
...evacuated his wife and four children to safety in Athens, Marmon moved his family to London. Returning to the office last week, they found that it had taken about 30 hits, mainly from .50-cal. armor-piercing machine-gun bullets. The desks were covered with shards of glass and plaster, but the telephones and telex were still working. Says Prager: "The relatively safe areas have become smaller; the box has shrunk." Marmon took advantage of the latest cease-fire to explore further...
...script is cumbersome, the soundtrack amateurish, the crowd scenes lifeless, the final moral conflict dance like and played so badly that you actually oppose the hero's crowning heroics. Yet it is, particularly for director Hill's first effort, stunning to look at. Bleached New Orleans pink and plaster white, lush Cajun greens. But mostly a million browns-browns that dwarf humans in the bulk of an industrial life that has left them out. The empty oyster-processing factory where Bronson fights among discarded shells is piled with hues of lifelessness; a shoeshine and a buck-and-wing echo eerily...