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Around that time, in the early 1950s, when dry wall was rapidly replacing plaster in new houses, one of Sokolof's employees arrived at work with two cartons of corner bead, the metallic strips used to join dry wall at a corner. "I looked at the price," Sokolof recalls, "and thought, 'My God! That's really high.' " After checking the cost of steel and the fabricating technique, he decided he could undercut the only two national companies producing the bead...
Honestly, almost no Currierite would now want to live in any other house, River or otherwise. Why would they? River houses are dirty, rat-infested, small, cramped, and just too old to admire after a month or two of watching chunks of plaster fall onto your lap from the ceiling everyday...
...poor surroundings. No matter how incongruous, the facilities were lavishly decorated with Persian rugs and sumptuous paintings. "Walk down the main street in Djibouti," says a Western banker, "and you'll see a building with a marble facade. That's B.C.C.I. On the two buildings on either side, the plaster will be breaking and falling...
...routine checkup two weeks earlier, Shawntea was found to have a level of 25 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. If that toxic level is maintained, it could affect her mental capabilities and result in grave behavioral and physical problems. "She was living in raggedy housing and eating plaster from a big hole in the wall," says her grandmother, who accompanied her. To Dr. Needleman, that is an important clue; it is likely that some of the earlier coats of paint on the wall contained lead. "Make sure she washes her hands before she eats," he says...
...quarrel is entwined in Catalonian politics. A symbol of the Catholic right, the church was sacked by anarchists in 1936, during Spain's civil war. Gaudi's drawings and plaster models went up in flames, but molds and photographs survived. Architect Jordi Bonet, who supervises the construction budget, says the opponents are "people who don't want a church as the emblem of our city." Moreover, Subirachs has publicly scorned the abstract artists favored by city hall in its Olympic building binge -- and the disdain is mutual. Says poet Joan Brossa: "Gaudi was avant-garde, but Subirachs is retro-garde...