Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eccentrics are not very plentiful these days, but the irreverance they represent is essential for survival. The Gardner Museum and all the letters, drawings, priceless paintings and china and carved doors and plaster casts and orchids and headless Greek statues in it are almost a monument to eccentricity. Mrs. Jack's place helps us step back from the world--if only for a moment--to laugh at all the absurdity...
...extravaganza making is going on at the stadium. The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce has commissioned Sculptor Mike Matoba to produce a life-sized bronze bust of Aaron that will eventually be placed outside the Braves' offices at the stadium. A local advertising company has spent $20,000 to plaster the city with 200 full-color billboards depicting Aaron in full swing, with Babe Ruth's face hovering in the background. The mayor and Governor, of course, are planning to be on hand to honor Aaron, and even the Federal Communications Commission in Washington got into...
December 3, 1973. Christmas shopping has activated midtown Manhattan. On the same island, downtown and away from the plazas of the Avenue of the Americas and from the leather rhinoceri gifts being handled at Abercrombie and Fitch, a violent force is knocking out a plaster wall, blowing away cinderblock partitions, fracturing a living human skull, injuring three other people and sending rubble and shock waves in all directions. The offices of the Political Rights Defense Fund and those of two libertarian organizations have been ruined...
...remember an afternoon I spent in Viedma Hospital, the chief medical facility in Cochabamba. The buildings that make up the hospital had been converted from the manor house of a plantation owner at the time of the Revolution. Now its plaster walls looked as though they might crumble momentarily. I sat in one of the examination rooms as a doctor was setting a cast on a broken leg. I watched as he examined the bandaged leg of the girl on the bed in the center of the dimly-lit, sullen room. She was young, about 19, and her pretty face...
...kinds. The girl, her leg still swollen with its two weeks of fracture, clutched the edge of the bed and closed her eyes as the doctor lightly touched the tobacco stains. Still joking with his assistant, he put on his white gloves and prepared to apply the plaster cast...