Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rogers, arranged and mounted by Art Dealer Felix Wildenstein of the Club's art committee. After three days the show was dismantled while newspaper critics clamored for a fuller public exhibition of the same works, hoped that it might tour the country. Fifty years ago a painted brown plaster Rogers Group was a standard fitting in the parlors of U. S. Respectability. With the colored lithographs of Currier & Ives and wax flowers under glass bells, they marked the sunrise of artistic appreciation in the country. The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home...
...impossible to adapt the acoustic properties to both music and speaking, chose to adapt them to speaking, and hardly left the University a chance to say no. In order to prevent the reverberation and echoes of the speaker's voice, the ceiling of the nave was finished in rough plaster, and a heavy carpet, lying on a three-quarter inch hemp padding, was laid down in the aisles...
Even while the guns were being unlimbered the crowd could not believe the boys were in earnest. They did when plaster spurted from the walls of buildings and bullets buzzed in their ears. Eight people were killed instantly. A little child had his jaw blown away. A young man died in his mother's arms. One proud father went out to the park to see his son march with the machine gun company. He fell with a bullet through the lungs. It was different from shooting on the range. A white-faced machine gunner dropped his piece, fled screaming...
...middleweight, left to shift for himself, falls into the hands of a racketeering manager. Partly because Oakie's opponent is Mushey Callahan, a onetime contender for the U. S. welterweight championship, the climactic prizefight is better organized than most such scuffles in the cinema. Callahan has plaster of Paris on his bandages to make his fists hard, but it is not enough to knock out Oakie. When the fight is over, Oakie reassures his girl (Marion Nixon), then goes, accompanied by the other right-thinking members of the cast including Jack Johnson, to take physical revenge on the racketeers...
...assistance of the American Institute for Persian Art & Archaeology. Between them they presented potent evidence in an exhibit of reproductions of 17th Century Persian frescoes which one Sarkis Katchadourian has spent two years laboriously copying in gouache on paper, reproductions which mimic exactly the patches of new plaster, the splatter of the original frescoer's brush. As in Paris, where the reproductions were first exhibited, critics were amused to note that painters apparently copied Marie Laurencin and Henri Matisse in the 17th Century. It seemed likely that the Institute for Persian Art & Archaeology which last winter started a Persian...