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...cloth cap jammed low on his white locks and his brown eyes squinting against the ever-present dust, Marinates scrambles down the gully to show interested visitors an example. He lowers himself into a masonry-lined oblong that was once a temple room. Triumphantly he points to the plaster of one wall. There is an image of a girl in a bell-shaped skirt, and she is dancing, dim in the sunlight. For 3,500 years, up until just a few weeks ago, that girl danced in the darkness of the earth...
...that is taken immediately to surgery." Where frescoes are found in a crumbled state, Marinates has them picked up piece by piece and reassembled on the spot by gentle-fingered experts in a workshed. The few visitors admitted to "surgery" find tables strewn with seeming jigsaw puzzles of painted plaster bits. One represents a blue monkey springing up through space with fingertip lightness (see second color page). The perfection of his leap sets this image among the greatest paintings of animals ever created...
...accumulated carpet of guano in some sections of the woods is a foot thick. No one can figure out why the birds chose this particular town or how to drive the intruders away. One man wrote the mayor with a gruesome plan for overkill: "You mix coarse meal with plaster of paris and feed it to the birds. It's sure to stop 'em up." But nothing has worked-not even a Radford-like barrage of noise-perhaps because the infested area is so much bigger. As yet, there seems to be no "final solution...
...playwrights, Tennessee Williams has built his career by exploiting certain characters and situations which he made his own from the start. His people have missed the boat in life, have gotten by without adjusting to the "normal world"; they always find too late that their personalities have hardened like plaster in the wrong mold. Williams lets their fevers go livid in phantasmagoric night worlds where they soliloquize on private terrors, and create minor crises for each other, knowing what they do there will reverberate no further. His plays deal with nostalgia and hope, they have the static quality...
...Portrait of Olga in an Armchair-1917; 33. By the Sea-1920; 34. Three Women at the Spring-1921; 35. Sleeping Peasants-1919; 36. Three Dancers-1925; 37. Plaster Head and Limbs-1925; 38. Woman's Head and Self-Portrait-1929; 39. Bather Playing with a Ball-1932; 40. Girl Before a Mirror-1932; 41. Nude on a Black Couch-1932; 42. Weeping Woman-1937; 43. Still Life with Red Bull's Head-1938; 44. Woman with Green Hat-1939; 45. Night Fishing at Antibes-1939; 46. Cat Eating a Bird...