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...housed in each of the two new colleges. Their rooms, hardly any two of them similar, are variations on a basic polygonal plan, look out on courts and open passageways that Saarinen feels are "not unlike a small Italian hill-town street." The interiors, done in stone, oak and plaster, will be designed to suggest the scholar's study rather than the clubman's rumpus room...
Stouthearted TV viewers have watched 1) alleged stomach acid rot a pocket handkerchiei, 2) elderly couples kissing while an announcement reassured the lovers that a special cleanser would keep their dentures pure, 3) corns the size of pumpkins pried out of plaster toes that could belong to the Colossus of Rhodes, 4) alleged liver bile dissolving a dreadful accumulation of fatty particles. Many a broadcaster is beginning to worry about such tasteless commercials...
...Royal College of Art traveling scholarship to Italy in 1925. "The Renaissance was what I was trying to get away from." But he went. Once there, he could not, would not shut his eyes, was thrilled to see how different were the real masterpieces of the Renaissance from the plaster copies he had studied in Leeds...
...work only on what intrigues him. In recent years, he has found a new fascination in what he had scorned in his youth-the intricate drapery of classical Greece. Currently, he is occupied with three larger-than-life reliefs, first worked out in miniature and now being shaped in plaster in one of his two large studios set away from his house. For the routine modelmaking and preliminary shaping, he has two assistants, students who work for a year or two at modest pay to learn what they can from a master and then go off to continue studies...
...graffito, which the artist and his 15-year-old son Peter completed in one day late in August, is 30 feet wide and 16 feet high. Working behind a team of plasterers who spread a quarter inch of white stucco over the black wall, Nivola first outlined his figures in paint with a thin brush. Then he and his son filled in the outline with solid blues, yellows and orange. Finally Nivola scratched deep lines through the colors and plaster to the black wall...