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...also features first editions and a plaster life mask of the poet done when he was 19 by painter Benjamin Haydon...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Houghton Hosts Keats Conference | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

...HAND IT TO CALVIN KLEIN: HE REALLY knows how to milk an advertising campaign, even a doomed one. First you push the envelope until it splits open by putting pubescent models in lurid poses, then plaster them on billboards and magazines-and air them on TV. If you're lucky, parents, the Catholic League and other religious groups will protest, especially over the video in which an offscreen male voice tells a girl standing alone that she's pretty and not to be nervous. Promise to withdraw the ads with an Orwellian statement about how your "positive message" was "misunderstood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE CALVIN CROSSED THE LINE | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

...Italianate Victorian house has an entry hall; a grand living room with fireplace, interior shutters, bay windows, wide pine floors; a dining room with original plaster moldings and formal French doors opening to the deck and gardens; and a modern chef's kitchen with oak floors and an arched ceiling...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Harvard Residence Of Du Bois Is for Sale | 7/25/1995 | See Source »

...bring Band-Aids. You don't want to have to trek a couple of blocks to UHS because you cut your finger. Note: when your international roommate asks if you have a plaster, don't chip off part of the wall and offer it to them--find a Band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain Gear a Must, but Lose the SAT Scores | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...apartment buildings, saying shoddy construction contributed greatly to the loss of life in the quake. They argue that the concrete buildings, which were put up as temporary housing during the 1960's, were built by the contractors using substandard materials and were held together by little more than plaster and reinforcing rods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA QUAKE . . . POLITICAL AFTERSHOCKS | 6/1/1995 | See Source »

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