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...Teddy will have to stay in the pipe and canvas contraption, no one can yet be sure. But he will not be moved for at least six weeks, and there is still a chance that his fractures will require surgical repair. He may be outfitted with a brace or plaster cast, but in any case he faces three to six months in bed, possibly in a Foster frame...
...whole parade of the last 80 years of art unwinds through a continuous maze of 37 galleries from Rousseau's primitives to Claes Oldenburg's plaster hamburgers, which the museum-swallowing hard but still proud of being first-says it bought before anyone else got the hunger. Of the museum's 1,800 paintings and sculptures, some 550 are on view, more than double the previous number. The sculpture garden grew to three-fourths of an acre, where weeping beeches hang over a raised level roofing on top of a 60-ft. by 75-ft. exhibition hall...
...style. The standard description--that it is "reminiscent of buildings in New Orleans and Italy"--is none too definitive. Miss Porritt suggests that the building is "vaguely Italian Renaissance, although not in the same sense that Sever is Italian Renaissance." And an imaginative parent took one look at the plaster model and pegged it "houseboat motif...
During a predawn card game with a guard in his Dallas County jail cell, Ruby asked for a glass of water and, when left alone, charged headfirst into a plaster cell wall. He suffered only a two-inch cut and a knot on his skull; moments later, guards found him trying to rip his white jail uniform into strips - presumably to fashion a noose...
...with wood over the load-bearing structural parts of the home. Wood and aluminum are wrestling for the right to be in window frames; steel and aluminum are fighting over outside door frames and sills. Gypsum board for interior walls has proved cheaper and faster to install than wet plaster, but it now has challengers in plywood finished by a photo process to look like expensive paneling and Masonite precoated with wallpaper or imitation wood grain...