Word: plasterers
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...north side of Ellis Island, the famed New York entry point for generations of immigrants, was magnificently renovated. But the hospital compound on the south side, where many arrivals were held in quarantine, was left to decay. For five years, Wilkes roamed the disintegrating buildings, with their cracked plaster and peeling paint, to make pictures of their gorgeous decrepitude. (Congress has since allocated money to preserve them.) Decline has never looked more haunting...
...Although a Shi'ite, Mahmoud lived in the Sunni neighborhood of Tarek Jdeide. While mourning pictures of Mahmoud plaster the ochre-colored wall of his simple two-story home, most of the drab apartment buildings and storefronts carry posters of slain prime minister Rafik Hariri or of his son, Saad, displaying their allegiance the Sunni political leadership. Mahmoud was killed on his way home from a mass sit-in downtown, where tens of thousands had demanded the ouster of the government...
...artist with a reputation for lofty concepts, ethereal soundscapes and evanescent light shows, Brian Eno's west London studio is a place of reassuring solids. Boxes neatly marked "screws," "measuring tools," "transistors" and "plaster" jostle for wall space with meter upon meter[an error occurred while processing this directive] of books, CDs and DVDs. Above a row of keyboards and computers, five boom boxes hang neatly in line. Suspended from the ceiling is a jerry-built lightbox of perspex and wood. Here and there lie bits of dead projects and pieces of experiments still in gestation. Amid all this stuff...
...ever hear you; senior year is about as stressful as it gets. However, as tempting as it may be to plaster the offenders’ door with house transfer forms or haul out that SuperSoaker you’ve been saving for a special occasion, it’s important to handle housing situations delicately. After all, you’ll be living next to the little party animals all year, and they tend to bite when provoked...
...seven-day juncture after menstruation when the Orthodox Jewish tradition considers a woman ready to resume marital relations, was indisputably meaningful to Cohen, but some of the facilities she had been using were uninspiring. The pool, she says, looked "like someone had dug a hole and put some plaster in it"; its rabbinically mandated rainwater sometimes bore someone else's hair. Cohen sighs, "You just wanted...