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...socialite mother's neck with slender, manicured hands. Edge really goes for hands-only last year it disposed of a sadistic multiple strangler called Big Frank, who had an enormous pair of them. For his services to soap, Big Frank's hands were cast in plaster as if they were Stokowski...
Love and the Frenchwoman (Auerbach; Kingsley International) is a plaster-of-Paris whale (2 hr. 23 min.) of a picture from the French Old Wave-artificial but amusing. In form, the film is a cinemanthology of seven short subjects, each written by a famous French novelist or scenarist, each directed by a different man, each played by different actors, and intended altogether to dramatize the seven ages of woman. In effect, it is the usual shallow but intelligent French discussion, toujours gai and sometimes icily ironic, of what makes the world go round...
Director James Rorimer dispatched his curator of Greek and Roman art to Rome. Curator Dietrich von Bothmer confronted Fioravanti in Parsons' apartment. Von Bothmer produced a plaster cast of one of the warrior's hands, from which the thumb was missing. Fioravanti in turn produced a thumb of baked pottery that he had been keeping for years. Placed together, thumb and hand fitted perfectly...
...vocabulary." He works rapidly with wire and metal rods, allows his construction to grow almost as if it had a goal of its own. If the construction does not please him, he can correct or discard; if it does, he fills it in like flesh over bones with a plaster made of gypsum and iron powder...
...saved from his newspaper route. A local dairy put up $100,000. A Boy Scout troop signed up for $150. A Greek Orthodox church proffered $3,000. A medical group pledged $25,000. Endicott's Post 82 of the American Legion pledged $50,000, offering to take "the plaster off the walls and sell the post home" if more was needed...