Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Profuse with C scrolls and S curves, rococo has often been labeled an interior decorator's art. In courtly architecture, such as Munich's dainty Amalienburg palace, plaster tendrils so slather the rooms that the ceiling is inseparable from the walls. Rococo was ornament become form, rather than the link between forms. It added asymmetry to the earlier style of baroque art, as one would add fantasy to fiction. Where the baroque was epic, rococo was lyric. It had a horror of straight lines, as if such were the symbols of reason and order...
Exit Adlai. A few delegates had been warned in advance. On the jet flight east, California Democrats got a mimeographed caveat: "No major hotel has been built in Atlantic City since 1929. and all of them have endured bad years. Such matters as falling plaster, removable doorknobs, detachable shower handles, unopenable windows, droughts (temporary water shortages of one kind or another), inoperable window shades, interminable room service, and lethargic elevators should be reported to the management or shared with sympathetic friends. The latter seems to have the best results. Welcome to Appalachia by the Atlantic...
France's Jean Anouilh will have two plays on Broadway. Poor Bitos, which was a hit in London, stars Donald (The Caretaker) Pleasence. Traveller Without Luggage is a tragicomedy about an amnesia victim. The Plaster Bambino, Sidney Michaels' second entry (with Ben Franklin), is one of the season's most intriguing dramas. The script, about a con man's production of the Passion Play, combines vaudeville, burlesque, music and a speaking chorus...
...first prize at the 1963 Paris biennial, it was awarded for his feverish blend of abstraction and figuration. Vaquero Turcios fears gimmickry in the Spanish preoccupation with paint as material rather than illusion. But he himself uses a latex and plastic mixture on pressed wood, or even plaster, as in the sails of his Homage to Rodrigo de Triana, the sailor on Columbus' Pinta who first saw the New World...
Detroit's operatives keep in constant touch with key informants in such sensitive and hard-to-patrol areas as the tool and die shops, design firms, plaster shops, tire companies and art studios that subcontract for the auto industry. Here they can often pick up information that skilled engineers and product planners can assemble into a faithful replica of a rival's new car. Ford, for example, was able to construct a clay model of General Motors' Chevelle nearly a year before its introduction. Most agents do their work so quietly that only a handful...