Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Damascus last week, two Chevrolet pickup trucks and two black sedans pulled up before a plaster and stone bungalow. Arab soldiers piled in bedrolls, crates, map rolls. Then a redhaired, blue-eyed man, who looked more German than Arab,* climbed into one of the sedans. The convoy filed out of Damascus, swung southward into Palestine. The Teutonic-looking man borrowed a phrase from General Douglas Mac Arthur. Said he: "I have returned." Ahead of Fawzi Bey Kawukji had come some 10,000 Arab volunteers. About one thousand more are entering each week. The Arab "rescue" of Palestine had begun...
...Footless Gods. In Luxor, Egypt, archeologists from the University of Chicago are patiently pecking away at mud plaster on the interior walls of the temple of Rameses III. They have been at it for years, for the temple contains Egyptian bas-reliefs religiously preserved. When Egypt was Christianized, the temple was turned into a church; the Christians chiseled off the heads & feet of the ancient, carved gods (works of the devil) and covered them with mud. Now the Chicago diggers are picking off the mud, almost grain by grain, and finding beneath it the ancient gods, headless and footless...
Years later in Paris, putting aside the things his father taught him, he experimented with paint, bronze, wooden cages, plaster balls, and a model of a nose. He once built a cage-like wooden house, placed the skeleton of a flapping bird in the attic, and a spinal column dangling downstairs, and called the whole thing "The palace...
When he took up sculpture, the plaster dust was soon ankle-deep on his studio floor, for Giacometti smashed almost everything he did. (He explained: "They were made to last only a few hours.") Sometimes his friends rescued a head or a torso or an arm. These won praise among the forward fringe in Paris and London, but not in his native Switzerland...
...Churchill once paused to consider Sir Stafford Cripps, whose plaster-saintly face is enlivened by a perennially red nose. "A very satisfactory division of labor," said Churchill. "I get the drink and he gets the nose...