Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Included in this group are the "fantastics," born between 1910 and 1930, who explore odd materials and resort to private mythologies, whether through the twisted polyurethane of Chamberlain, the plaster casts of Segal, the junk sculpture of Stankiewicz, or the soft objects of Claes Oldenburg. On the bottom three tiers, and on the ground floor and bottom levels, in stage center, are the minimalists, including Tony Smith (TIME cover, Oct. 13). It is Fry's opinion that the minimalists, who build industrially produced large-scale works, are trying to achieve a "tabula rasa, the clean slate upon which...
Flanked by a sleazy bar and grill and a dusty antique-and-junk shop, the tawdry tenement at 169 Avenue B on Manhattan's Lower East Side is typical of the area. Decaying plaster and peeling paint festoon its dark blue hall ways, and a flight of creaky wood stairs leads down to an oppressively low-ceilinged cellar that reeks of dog droppings and rancid garbage. A single naked light bulb illuminates the grimy heating pipes, the cockroach-scampered walls, and piles of loose, whitewashed firebricks from the building's boiler. It hardly seems the place...
Since the Air Force's SR-71 began flying over Chicago three months ago, the Chanute Air Force Base in downstate Illinois has received 1,630 letters of complaint, 1,497 of them claiming damage (usually cracked plaster and glass) caused by sonic booms. In Boston, the Air Force and Air Guard are formally investigating a recent boom that, according to newspaper accounts, knocked scores of pedestrians off their feet, leaving "a trail of terror...
...revolver, he shot his wife's attorney dead. Marie Bivins came next: dropped by one slug in the neck, she died in the jury box. Judge Parker heaved his swivel chair at Bivins, who was pumping a slug at his own lawyer, showering the deputy court clerk with plaster when the bullet pinged into the wall near her head. Then he turned and shot Parker in the loins. When his gun misfired, the judge and Bivins' lawyer managed to kick him into submission...
Berg believes the piece to be a bronze casting of a plaster original and does not know whether other copies exist. "It is well-suited for its present location," he said, and predicted it will remain in the Yard. "I think it's spectacular--I love...