Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...some months things went along swimmingly. Then, as a man with too much often will. Dr. Evenou grew bored. "My first two wives left me of their own accord." he burst out petulantly to Simone one day over a glass of port, "but this one sticks like mustard plaster...
Jose Buscaglia's sculpture marks him as one of the most proficient and talented of this group of artists. The bust of Don Jose is imposing. The surface treatment is unusual and very expressive. Childbirth of a Country Woman, also in plaster, is as much a technical achievement but far less successful. The moods of the two figures, the man and woman are so opposed that it is impossible to believe that that two human beings could be in proximity. The kneeling man's expression of contemplation is quite out of keeping with the shriek of pain that writhes from...