Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot-high plaster bust of Kim, on the right by a bust of Stalin...
...galvanized iron-sheeted dining hall, they ate Tandon's strict orthodox menu: rice, wheat pancakes, lentils, sweets, vegetables, buttermilk. Shuffling around the ten-stall "village uplift" exhibition they gaped at tractors, bulldozers and an improved oil seed crusher. They gasped at a lecture on artificial insemination (illustrated with plaster models) and were dazzled by shimmering neon advertisements. They saw posters on the evils of drink; noted the stall which sold cottage-made, unrefined palm juice sugar, and listened when Tandon declared that "Cow protection is part of Indian culture and as such . . . the cow should be afforded full protection...
Maurice Lavanoux, the good grey secretary of Manhattan's Liturgical Arts Society, gave strong support to that idea. In the U.S., he declared, church-goods houses "have debased the taste of generations of worshipers" by filling churches with mass-produced, painted-plaster "catalogue Virgins." Most parishes, Lavanoux added, "accept this practice because they think it is the normal thing, but the capacity of the average parishioner for accepting good art has been greatly underestimated . . . We need the contemporary artist to help us end the scandal of the trash that is in our churches...
Within three-quarters of a mile of the burst, "substantial destruction of all except modern, reinforced concrete and heavy steel-frame buildings; up to 1½ miles, complete destruction of most old-style brick and frame buildings, and serious damage to modern buildings. Slight damage (plaster and glass) up to eight miles away. For at least two miles from the burst, streets blocked by rubble, and power, light and water lines knocked...
Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History put on a little show this week to make the weariest museum trudger smile: eight plaster statuettes of fabled animals. Among them were Pegasus sitting exhausted on a cloud, Leda tête-à-tête with a Donald-Duckish swan, Brer Rabbit battling the rude Tar Baby, Androcles nursing a huge, unhappy lion, and the elastic-nebbed elephant and tenacious crocodile of Kipling's Just So Stories. What the sculptures lacked in naturalism they more than made up for in naturalness...