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...wall mosaics were congealed for centuries by plaster and whitewash in two churches--the great Hagai Sophia, and a smaller monastic church, the Karich Djami, both in Istanbul...
...office, no single piece of paper is ever in evidence unless he is working on it. But the material he may be inspecting or cataloguing would stand an ordinary layman's hair on end -elaborate, erotic instruments and devices from Japan, wildly obscene picture books, Austrian etchings and plaster models that would make a call girl blush...
Sculptor Zorach took three years to carve his warmly maternal Mother and Child from a three-ton chunk of rose-colored marble. In the sculpting, he ignored the common practice of making a plaster model and translating it into stone mechanically. In an older and more honored tradition, Zorach worked the marble freehand, using a small plaster model only as a guide...
...building, are flexibility and low operating cost. The new plant is supposed to save 37% in the time necessary to put on a show. Everything-from raw materials to finished product-is under one roof: rehearsal halls, four studios, a 35-man carpentry shop, a paint shop, even a plaster shop that makes everything from fake balustrades to bottles that shatter when bounced lightly off an actor's head. CBS can also store, for quick reuse, all its scenery and sets (in Manhattan the company spends about $40,000 a week just trucking sets to & from the studios...
...Plaster Paneling. Fondly eying the amateur home fixers, U.S. Gypsum Co. showed off its new sheetrock gypsum wallboard, which it hopes will replace plywood for many uses. The board is fire-resistant, sound-dampening, and can be easily glued to old plaster walls or any other smooth surface. Panels are 16 in. wide and 8 to 10 ft. long, come in plain, knotty pine and striated finishes, and they can easily be cut with a penknife. Price...