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...work was carried out under the supervision of the Getty's director, Miguel Angel Corzo, a Spaniard. When he began six years ago, he faced a formidable task. Paint was flaking and chunks of plaster were detached from the limestone walls. Insects nested in corners. Egyptian officials had glued large squares of cloth to the walls to prevent them from collapsing and had suspended a net to catch portions of falling ceiling plaster...
...vintage American style, inspired her children to make something of themselves by seizing opportunities she never had. Her foibles and uproarious back-country ways are evoked unflinchingly but without disrespect. It is a measure of Holland's gifts (and of Bruce's acting) that the mother never seems a plaster saint, even when she is a true martyr -- fatally burned in a house fire that was apparently retaliation for the daughter's civil rights activism...
Some artists don't seem to belong in the show at all, or only do so by force of custom. It's a toss-up whether you want to see George Segal's once white, now gray, plaster-cast figures in relation to mass culture; today they seem even more attached to solitude and individual grittiness than they did in the '60s, sculptural materializations of the urban mood of Hopper. You could make some kind of case for that excellent California painter Wayne Thiebaud as a Pop artist because he painted hot dogs and angel-food cakes; but artists have...
...result is an Eddie Murphy parody: "What this little girl need, I say, is a hot brick in her bed and a mustard plaster on her chest and old Rebekah rubbing out the chill from her bones, with a milk toddy and a talk with Jesus to finish the cure. I done talk with Jesus while I rub, and He bring you back like I knowed He would. Lord, I tell Him, this ain't no real work like Lazarus, this here is just a little girl feeling poorly...
Corruption and fraud in the construction industry have plagued New York City for decades. Public projects, especially the $4.3 billion building program for schools, have been marred by crumbling plaster and leaky roofs -- often the work of firms tied to organized crime. Now a state agency seeks to disqualify unscrupulous contractors before they can even bid on city projects. The School Construction Authority, created in 1989, has identified 52 contracting firms linked to crime or shaky financing. "Some agencies review companies with suspicious records, but we demand disclosure of potential bidders," says Thomas D. Thacher, the SCA's inspector general...