Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bitterness of despair. Sometimes neck-deep in water, wallowing in mud, the Vietnamese Marines moved in bunker by bunker, dropping grenades into the Viet Cong firing slits and forcing the Viet Cong in the dikes out into the open, where air support and artillery, when it arrived, could plaster them. The Marines paid dearly for their courage, suffering 41 dead and 162 wounded; U.S. losses were 13 killed and 73 wounded. But at the end of the daylong battle, 235 Viet Cong bodies were awash in the paddy waters...
...every European princeling was building his own little Versailles and architects like Nash, Vanbrugh, Inigo Jones and Wyatt were adapting Italian magnificence for English country gentlemen. The modern eye can only goggle in awe at heroic staircases, ceilings bulging with putti, acres of marble floors reflecting miles of gilded plaster. Magnificence had become largely a semi-public affair, as in Queen Victoria's railway carriage (sapphire satin and tasseled draperies with a white quilted ceiling) and not merely ostentatious, as in the dining room at London's Ritz Hotel ("the most beautiful Edwardian restaurant in existence...
Startled by the noise, a flock of geese flapped across the cloudy sky, momentarily breaking their V-formation. Below, pulsating pressure waves beat against the faces and chests of reporters sitting in an open grandstand. In the launch-control center, as plaster dust from the ceiling fell around him and technicians wildly cheered, Wernher von Braun breathed, "Go, baby, go. " And in a portable CBS News studio, Commentator Walter Cronkite pressed his hands against a trembling plate-glass window and, in a voice distorted by excitement and vibration, shouted to a nationwide TV audience: "Oh, my God, our building...
Demonic Force. The artist now mixes media with enthusiastic abandon. The 17 monstrous painted panels in the London show are augmented by grafted-on photographic blowups, found objects and even entire plaster sculptures. And their subject matter is as apocalyptic as their technique is accomplished. Typical is his self-portrait of the artist at work. Whiteley painted in his head, wreathed in its halo of reddish hair, and showed his left hand drawing at an easel. But the right, black-shirted arm snakes out across the floor to where his twisted, plaster-spattered fingers offer the startled viewer a fresh...
...accuse Raphael of being unfaithful to Hardy's original. He has moved virtually every incident of the novel into his script. But in doing so, he, with Schlesinger's twitchy camera, have served up more plot than the film's skimpy characterization can plaster together. Perhaps as a unification device, Schlesinger again hauls out his Darling trick of beginning the dialogue of the next scene while still presenting a first one. No scene is presented at any great length, except the the key one in which Stamp wins Miss Christie with a flashing display of sword exercises on a sweeping...