Word: plaster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese medicine made by Westerners is that family doctors overprescribe. An American scholar who recently consulted a Japanese doctor for a mildly sprained ankle came away with a muscle relaxant, an anti-inflammatory drug, a stomach powder to ease the side effects of the drugs, and a foot plaster. In the U.S., he probably would have been told to stay off the foot for a while and take a few aspirin...
...Such undesirable Beach Boys fans as George Bush, Michael Deaver and Nancy Reagan (a closet B.B. groupie) thought Watt was out of tune and touch. The Great Conductor himself, Ronald Reagan, called Watt into the Oval Office for a brief musical seminar. Then the President presented him with a plaster statue of a foot with a bullet hole in it, symbolic of where Watt had shot himself...
Finally, the president himself took Watt along the now well-trod path behind the White House woodshed, and when the secretary emerged, he carried a plaster trophy of a foot with a bullet hole in it and announced. "I've learned a lot about the Beach Boys in the last 12 hours. We'll look forward to having them here in Washington to entertain us again...
Contractors will begin work inside the buildings after Commencement. Repairs will include replacing cracked and broken plaster, painting, sealing pipes and replacing cracked bathroom fixtures...
...First Lady invited 500 over for dinner on sound stage No. 9, a vast space where the M*A*S*H series had been filmed. For this occasion, the olive drab was replaced by gay Hollywood eclectic: Ficus trees draped with fairy lights, fiber glass and plaster statues (including one of Bacchus) standing on yards of artificial turf, a 24-ft.-high fountain (from Hello Dolly), painted pastoral backdrops (used in From the Terrace) and Chinese paper lanterns...