Word: plastered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...images of the immediate aftermath that are imprinted on the mind, the fragments of a normality shattered just a moment ago. The smoke from the bomb has scarcely cleared. Bodies on stretchers are jounced frantically toward the ambulances, and an arm waves at the camera to clear the way. Plaster clouds and torn clothes everywhere, the neighborhood blown out of its shoes. All in the same viewfinder: rescuers scramble in the chaos, a mother screams as if in Guernica, the stunned survivors move off with a slow, blank stare. The dead lie abruptly motionless wherever the latest outrage has deposited...
...outraged that a man would take the name of our Lord and plaster it across a woman's half-naked buttocks just to make money. The sad part is that he is successful in finding people willing to accept such offensive clothing...
...towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples" would all dissolve, for "we are such stuff as dreams are made on"? Trompe l'oeil (trickery of the eye) is the artistic term for it, and Italy is full of palaces with flat ceilings painted to look vaulted and plaster made to resemble marble. Even Renaissance landlords liked to economize...
...enter the wonderful world of good design now on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, you pass fluttery rococo plaster nymphs in the ornate beauxarts classic entrance hall. The abrupt aesthetic change is like jumping from a sauna into a cool swimming pool. Titled "Design Since 1945," the exhibition (through Jan. 8) presents a world based on the primacy of function, which beautiful form is supposed to follow automatically. It often does. Modern style is the only authentic one of our time, and modernists and their friends therefore peremptorily equate modern with good. It often...
...changes have been minimal. A $30 million restoration plan included replacing the metal roof tacked on in 1901 with a glass one like the original, and casting plaster-and-jute capitals to restore damaged columns. In the clock tower, ten enormous new bells, replicas of Westminster Abbey's, will ring out across Washington...