Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...displays her pubescent body with the columnar grace of a figure by Piero della Francesca; light flows around the shallow curve of the wall and invests her outline with a hushed archaic permanence; many coats and scumblings of paint have given her flesh the porous, mat quality of fresco plaster. Balthus' art is about stabilizing the eye, and giving measure, proportion and distance to what it extracts from the world. The rooms in which his figures pose are all ideal architecture: their orthogonal emptiness is the stage for a subtle play of forms in which the way a towel...
...gave our Nairobi bureau included a pair of brown glass eyes, a dead rabbit and false eyelashes; and he also requested a personal guard to protect his equipment and handiwork from whatever hazards might lurk in the bush. In three 18-hour days, O'Bradovich fashioned a plaster head modeled from skull fragments, then used the head to mold a latex mask of a Homo habilis face. A Kenyan volunteer wore the mask for Fischer's cover photograph, taken in the desolate Rift Valley outside Nairobi...
...impossible to study here," complains Dan Rossberger, a Cornell freshman living in a study lounge with four others. Meanwhile 200 Boston University students, assigned to three decrepit buildings hastily leased by the school, say they must try to study while cockroaches dart across their feet, workmen fix plaster above their heads and prostitutes ply their trade near...
Having stolen all the media's attention away from Velma who also used Flynn's tactics, Roxie marches brazenly to court, assured that her celebrity status will not only insure acquittal, but that she will be able to plaster her own name across the country in big, bright neon vaudeville marquee in New York...
Artoo Detoo's faithful robot friend, Threepio, is supposed to look vaguely human, somewhat like the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. A plaster cast was made of British Actor Anthony Daniels, who was to be the man inside. From that cast Barry constructed a golden figure of plastic, rubber, fiber glass, steel and aluminum. Threepio fairly glistened and shone when he was unveiled on the Tunisian set-but that was part of the trouble. It was so hot inside the robot body that Daniels nearly expired, and the machine's plastic and rubber joints were...