Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...converted Pueblo Indians (including the fanatical sect of Indian flagellants known as Penitentes) who lived along the headwaters of the Rio Grande in New Mexico. For them, civilization and the cathedral which symbolized it lay in Mexico City, over 1,000 miles to the southeast. When their imported plaster statues crumbled and the oil paintings in their adobe chapels faded away, they created their own rowel-sharp art. It was one of history's best examples of the meeting of simplicity and sophistication...
...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 out 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...
...whole shebang cost the studios $65,000. Metro's top art men, Cedric Gibbons and Jack Smith, personally did the $10,000 "set" stage: a pylon, backed by six Greek columns, and topped with a 5-ft. gilt plaster replica of Oscar. As the evening slunk by, this gaudy setting was filled with some rare gems...
...lady had recovered amazingly well. She was enjoying the cold sunny weather and the shouts of bobsledders in the snowy street outside. She ate well, listened to the radio, had her daughter read her the Kansas City Star and the Congressional Record, as usual. Both her legs were in plaster casts, but she felt little pain, showed no signs of contracting pneumonia...
...sculptor comes to Springfield to take plaster impressions of Lincoln's hands. He suggests that something be held while the cast is being made. Lincoln vanishes into a woodshed, is heard sawing away, reappears with a carefully trimmed piece of broomstick. The sculptor protests that any old object would have served. "Oh, well," says Lincoln, "I thought I would like to have it nice...