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...life as lamps. "Salvaged waste has value," agrees George Korper, proprietor of the Eco-Center store in Greenwich, Conn., which sells things like telephone-cable spools as $2 patio tables. Going one better, Mrs. Jerrald Dixon of Crown Point, Ind., makes "Old Woman in the Shoe" table centerpieces with plaster figures and her husband's worn-out Army boots...
...witty collage of "medals"-a spoof on Allner's many legitimate art prizes. Other elegant murals and sculptures turn out, on inspection, to be composed of Styrofoam egg cartons and packing materials that Allner particularly admires. "Besides," he wryly adds, "the foam looks better than the cracked plaster behind...
...France. But the long familiar statue now has a new and different look. Although she still wears the customary Phrygian hat, her habitually austere visage has been replaced by a generous mouth and her torso by an even more generous cleavage. The face and figure, done in white plaster with bronze patinas, are unmistakably those of Brigitte Bardot...
Today Le Petit Vatican-two gray concrete buildings with corrugated roofs -sits at a rural crossroad in the French village of Clémery. One building is the 200-ft. "Basilica of Glory," austere on the outside but stuffed with plaster piety inside: battalions of pink and blue angels, scores of polychromed saints, gauze curtains and blue and beige carpets. The make-believe Pope has only a modest Curia -ten "cardinals" and "bishops" and a covey of giggling "nuns": most of the followers are or have been Roman Catholic priests and nuns...
...best, pop literature provides a set of tracks along which the reader's fantasies can chug-chug-chug and toot-toot-toot. Len Deighton or Harold Robbins or Erich Segal paints up a few props as passive scenery-model villages with lifelike residents, a plaster panther forever in the act of springing-and the reader's imagination makes it all real. Oliver Lange, for example, posits a brief, one-sided and almost painless Russo-American war-Washington is taken, and that's about it. Afterwards, the Soviets occupy...