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...temperature averages about 25° in Hinsdale, Rösrath has comparatively balmy readings in the mid-30s. As it happens, Rösrath also benefits from the coincidental fact that wood is scarce: virtually every building is made of stone or brick slathered generously with gray-white plaster. Windows tend to be small, doors heavy and roofs snugly covered with baked clay tiles. In addition, German building codes often mandate special insulation for new houses-double-pane windows, for example...
...tour includes a step-by-step explanation of fossilization and erosion and the kids get to try their hand at casting fossils in plaster. The museum also set up a mock dig site, complete with geological tools and "junk fossils...
After making plaster casts and puttering about the dig site, sightseers get a look at some of Harvard's more famous fossils including coelcanph, a "living fossil" (it survives today) and is a special attraction at the museum. Coelacanph is an example of a prehistoric fish which made the transition from water to air respiration. Harvard acquired its bones some 20 years...
...elderly men, Pinkney Carson, 66, and Herman Jackson, 62, were found frozen to death in unheated rooms in a New York City residential hotel. A furnace boiler had failed, and the men had huddled under thin blankets as water froze in glasses and ice formed on the cracked plaster of their tenement. In rural Georgia, three young brothers, Timmy Schuler, 11, Brian, 9, and Kirt, 7, romped on a pond covered with ice that had come South with the Northern winter. Timmy saw the younger boys break through and ran to their aid. All three drowned. In Atlanta, Mrs. Irma...
...movie also contains Director Elia Kazan's most assured work in a decade. Scenes like Kathleen's first appearance-Stahr sees her on a set, in the aftermath of an earthquake, floating down a man-made river aboard the great plaster head of a mythological goddess-are brought off with the checked flamboyance characteristic of the best in Panic in the Streets and East of Eden. Kazan has certainly lost none of his assurance with actors. De Niro makes an appropriately remote Stahr, bright or shaded depending on the circumstances and angle of view. Mitchum, Milland, Tony Curtis...