Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...store, they bind and gag the concierge and his wife, roll back the living-room rug and begin cutting through the concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute reaching for instruments, the same intensity of purpose, the same growing strain as the operation...
...sculptors and painters moved into the field, drawn by the new and freer techniques, they helped to accelerate the experimental pace. Among the early innovators : Painter John Ferren, who produced colored prints on plaster instead of paper; Boris Margo, who developed a new, easy-to-work print surface of sheet cellophane dissolved in acetone; Adja Junkers, who blew woodcuts up to mural-sized proportions with his 14-ft.-long triptych in which the center panel alone used eight blocks and 56 colors. Sculptor Leon ard Baskin's Man of Peace, 1953 (see cut), displayed at Brooklyn's prizewinners...
...built, and workmen set about moving the statue into its new home. But the goat was still at work, and in the midst of the heavy task the workmen's cable broke, and the Buddha crashed to the ground, badly cracked. To the priests' surprise, the plaster was only a shell; beneath it shone the glint of metal. Trai Mitra's old plaster Buddha was a mere mummy case concealing a beautiful sculptured image wrought of 60% gold. Though to the pious Buddhist one divine image is as valuable as another, regardless of intrinsic worth...
...last week donations and sightseers alike were pouring into the newly wealthy temple. But in his diabolical way the goat was still busy. In forgotten temples all over the land, to the consternation of the devout, Buddhists were hacking away hopefully and irreverently at any plaster Buddhas they could find...
...room in the museum will be redesigned to display the skeleton. The bones will be fastened to a steel framework along one side, and a plaster-of-paris wall will be built to cover the frame and simulate the rock wall in which the reptile was found...