Word: plaster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-tech razzle-dazzle masks plenty of serious business. Investigators are experimenting with new forms of teleconferencing. One idea involved projecting video images of individuals onto plaster casts of their faces. The resulting "talking heads" were so lifelike that people using the system felt they were "meeting" with colleagues who were actually in another city. A major effort is also being made to enhance computer animation. Assistant Professor David Zeltzer, building on research he started at Ohio State, is developing new ways of simulating human figures and movement. One application would allow playwrights to see just how scenes would look...
Avol has spruced up his temporary roost with fresh coats of paint, but residents of the four-story building tell of crumbling plaster, missing windows, faulty plumbing, roaches and rats. "I catch a minimum of ten mice a week," says Tenant Jose Cavasos. Even if Avol substantially improves the building, his eye may be on the bottom line: the apartment house is up for sale...
...responds patiently -- "I'm not a very good writer" -- and laboriously signs with his left hand, which he learned to write with after coming home to Russell, Kans., a horribly wounded veteran of the war against Nazi Germany. It took three years, seven operations and months in a plaster cast that encased him from neck to waist for him to recover. Compared with that ordeal, says Dole's younger brother Kenny, "running for President will be a piece of cake...
...decision to leave his father dominates the conversation between the two Gars and is the underlying source of tension. But this tension is one-sided, as we see only one brief glimpse of what the father truly feels. His face is often too plaster-like to gain any true insights...
Concrete, plaster, wood and water flooded a room in 8 Prescott St. earlier this week in the latest of a series of structural problems that have plagued the freshman dormitory this year...