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...overpressure to as high as 10 Ibs. per square foot. But nothing broke. Officials of the Federal Aviation Agency began to break out in smiles. Maybe the booms sure to be caused by high-flying supersonic transports would not be so bad after all. It was obvious that plaster and glass were standing up well. And they were getting hit with five times the average jolt that supersonic planes gave the 750,000 residents of Oklahoma City up to eight times a day in tests earlier this year. During those tests, the FAA answered 12,558 telephone calls and letters...
...bronze man upon a bronze horse, and who salutes? Put a plaster Eisenhower in a real Jeep, and the art world cheers. For in today's sculpture, both traditional subject matter and traditional techniques have gone by the board. Where once marble and bronze held sway, sculpture is now made of plastics, automobile fenders, even fur, carpeting and burlap. In place of the commemorative bust, the symbolic nude or heroic grouping, there are now polyester broads, overstuffed light switches, 3-D inside-out doughnuts, stuffed-leather totems, and well-welded remnants of the new Iron Age. The definition...
...double insurance.Master Foundry-man Bruno Bearzi was commissioned to make plaster impressions and cast bronze replicas. Since Bearzi used the waste-mold process, in which the plaster is broken off, only one set of duplicates was made. In 1948 the scrubbed originals were rehinged at the famed San Giovanni Baptistery. Five years ago. San Francisco's Protestant Episcopal' Grace Cathedral, under construction in traditional Gothic style, commissioned the completion of the duplicate doors Now the replicated Ghibertis have a godly home...
...large plates) is devoted to just 14 works, the "black paintings" with which he decorated the walls of his country villa toward the end of his life. The black paintings are massive, powerful, hell-ridden. But they are also sadly deteriorated with time, having been originally executed on plaster in oil paint that was transferred bodily to canvas many years later. Their power finally eludes even the great care and scale of these reproductions...
...Marx Brothers and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In its liveliest moments, Les Abysses is unwittingly hilarious, an amateur Grand Guignol about a pair of sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress, throw fish at her daughter, uncork the wine vat, scrape rubbish off the floor and dump it into the master's soup. "What did you put in the closet?" asks one. "The chicken droppings," replies the sister...