Word: plasterers
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...Recent Acquisitions" show last week was a Johns target, messily painted in red, blue and yellow atop a layer of old newspapers pasted to canvas. Attached to the upper edge of the canvas was a boxlike arrangement containing the lower parts of four faces, done in tinted plaster...
...flung colonnades set above a reflecting lagoon are meant to convey, in Maybeck's words, "sadness, modified by the feeling that beauty has a soothing effect." Seen by 10 million visitors over the years, it has become the most popular public monument in California. Today its plaster is crumbling, the paint is flaking, and the roof leaks. But it still does what great architecture is meant to do: touch the heart and enlarge the vision...
...seemed to him that she had grown very tall, and that she was clothed in pure light, and that her face beamed like the moon when it was full"'). In short, the book-a sure bestseller-is about on a par with the five-and-ten plaster statues of the saints and prettily painted picture postcards of Christ...
...unlikely gimcrack that for years has been the hottest-selling art object in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost big island, is the small plaster bust (price: $1) of a stern-faced New England schoolmaster who died in 1887. William Smith Clark stayed only eight months on Hokkaido, but the visit, in 1876, was long enough for him to be enshrined by the islanders as something between seer and saint. On leave from his job as president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts), Clark helped found the school that was to become the outpost island's pride...
...lost all the way, finally had to pay M-G-M a hefty (but undisclosed) price for permission to broadcast it. On the air, it hardly seemed worth all the fuss. Despite a few diverting sight gags-e.g., Benny, in full Victorian rig, standing impassive as ceiling plaster rains down on him-the long-delayed take-off shed more gas than light. One of the rare high spots: when Benny urges his wife (Barbara Stanwyck) to take dinner in bed, she screams hysterically: "I had breakfast in bed, I had lunch in bed. I can't have dinner...