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...Junyer is a painter who paints no pictures, a sculptor who carves no stone. He molds abstract shapes of wood and plaster, paints them with wavering, rainbow strokes of cool color, ornaments them with bold patterns, simplified human figures and shadow-casting bumps and cutouts. Result: a new kind of fluid wall decoration which revives, in a modern idiom, the painted-sculpture art of the ancient Egyptians, Syrians and Greeks...
...Giacometti looks like a tormented Chico Marx; he also sculps and paints with the bug-eyed fury of a Harpo, and creates things undreamed of even in Groucho's philosophy. His subject matter is the human frame; his approach to it destructive. Giacometti hacks, picks and pocks his plaster sculptures until they stand thin as reeds, then he generally smashes them. He saved just enough to make an exhibition in a Paris gallery last week...
Something did: the telephone rang a third time. Testifies Menuhin: "Deliberately, the Maestro got up, walked over to the phone, picked it up, and with one mighty yank he pulled it, plaster and all, out of the wall. All this without saying a word. Then, completely relaxed again, at peace with the world, he sat down and we continued to play the Beethoven concerto...
...present peculiar shape. Though the second story went untouched, an extension was tacked onto the southern side of the first floor, destroying the building's old symmetry, the old interior walls were knocked out and partitions were set up to carve put three smaller rooms. A couple of plaster statues were moved into one of these which became known as Harvard 1, but practically all of Harvard Hall's past glory had moved elsewhere, leaving only memories and five musty old classrooms...
Dressed in rough, blue denim work clothes, the Benedictine nuns of St. Louis du Temple were busy one day last week plastering the walls of their new convent at Limon, near Paris. As they worked, a nun in full habit picked her way through the chaos of scaffolding, pipes and plaster, and the others turned to look at her with sharp interest. Even the Mère Abbesse showed special respect. The abbess pointed to the outline of a Gothic window above a freshly mortared chapel wall: "And there, Mère Geneviève, we shall need three large...