Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the doctor chipped off a plaster cast that had held Grace Kim prisoner for nearly five months. Grace, he said, would limp for a long time to come, but eventually she would walk normally. As for her foster son, his back is still in a cast, but growing stronger every day. Smiling happily as he sat nearby in gay blue pajamas, five-year-old Ronnie Kim carefully assembled a toy out of sticks. "It's an airplane," he explained, "to take my mother to America some...
...This Is Real!" At the first sound of gunfire, most Congressmen thought that it was a prank−a string of firecrackers or a cap pistol. The shots pinged everywhere. Two hit the ceiling, nicking off fist-sized chunks of plaster. Another bored a one-inch hole in the Republican legislative table, stinging the face of Republican Whip Leslie Arends with splinters, showering bits of wood on three California Congressmen who were piled up underneath the table. Other members dropped to the floor. Shouted Representative Benjamin James of Pennsylvania: "My God, this is real...
...trekked to Paris, compared the size and workmanship of the two pieces of sculpture. After long study, experts decided beyond doubt that the Boston head belonged to the Paris torso. Last week the results of Bothmer's artistic detective work were on view in the Boston Museum. Plaster casts of the body and head had been fitted together, forming a delicately detailed image of a firm-faced young king with a Mona Lisa smile, holding offerings for the gods. Amenhotep II, luckier than Humpty Dumpty, was all together again-at least in plaster-after some 3,000 years...
When all is over, however, one last dilemma remains: what is MGM going to do with all those plaster busts of Louis Calhern...
...primary concern is with the exhibition collections, and here his value has been the greatest. Every glass flower must be mounted for display, and Bierweiler has perfected the technique. Each is set on a plaster of Paris plaque, poured amazingly smooth on a sheet of glass. The flower, of course, is extremely fragile and must be buttressed in several places. Bierweiler makes plaster supports which fit under stems, leaves, or petals wherever necessary without obstructing anything. Then, with a dentist's drill, he makes a fine hole in the plaster through which he runs a thin silver wire...