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Hard by Moore's field is Moore's simple whitewashed studio where he works on an open veranda under a transparent roof that keeps him from being rained out. Last week he was chipping away at a huge chunk of dazzling white plaster against the deep green grass and bright blue sky. It was the working model for the 30-ton marble reclining figure of a woman that will be placed in front of the UNESCO building in Paris. It will be completed next year...
Latter-day classicists have summoned up a nostalgic vision of classic Rome as an uncluttered prospect of soaring marble temples, each as immaculate as a white plaster model. The reality of the marketplace was far different. Most of its buildings were built of brick, wood and dingy stone until almost the beginning of the Christian era. The city itself, with a population that surpassed present-day Rome's 1,750,700, squeezed into an even smaller circumference, was a terrifying tangle of pedestrians, soldiers, horses, lurching sedan chairs and carts...
...Public Health Service, usually encased in a plaster cast of bureaucratic caution, took a relatively bold step last week. On the smoking-and-cancer question, it advanced from its guarded 1954 position ("some evidence of a statistical association"), last week announced: "There is an increasing and consistent body of evidence that excessive cigarette smoking is one of the causative factors in lung cancer . . . and there is a direct relationship between the incidence of lung cancer and the amount smoked...
Above the visitors was a two-ton chandelier of solid bronze inlaid with nickel; around them were porcelain and plaster tiles of blue, green and gold in geometric designs. Verses from the Koran and the 99 formal Arabic titles of Allah gleamed in gold inscriptions on the walls and ceilings. Outside, the sun sparkled on the crescent that tops the minaret 160 ft. above Washington's stately Massachusetts Avenue. The $1,250,000 mosque (built with the contributions of 15 Moslem nations) stands canted to the street in order to face Mecca.*The world's only air-conditioned...
...progression lies in his rare self-portraits: in 1900 he saw himself as a religion-seeker, with deep, glowing eyes (a pose that later so distressed him that he threatened to destroy the work with an automatic pistol); by 1942 his portrait had become a sculpture in flat white plaster cubes and planes...