Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Boyt has designed several suitably drab settings, almost all of which feature peeling wallpaper and cracked plaster. Mr. Ben-Ami does a fairly good job with the direction, but he should never have taken up with a play that chiefly inspires one to throw things...
...paid them a visit, began telling Andy how to paint a head, finally took the brush out of his son's hand and began to show him his idea. Betsy stood furiously by for a while, then walked out and slammed the door so hard the plaster fell from the ceiling. Next day N. C. came to Betsy and said, "I've been watching you for five years and you're all right, young lady. The stage is yours." He never interfered with Andy's work again...
...Junyer is a painter who paints no pictures, a sculptor who carves no stone. He molds abstract shapes of wood and plaster, paints them with wavering, rainbow strokes of cool color, ornaments them with bold patterns, simplified human figures and shadow-casting bumps and cutouts. Result: a new kind of fluid wall decoration which revives, in a modern idiom, the painted-sculpture art of the ancient Egyptians, Syrians and Greeks...
...that era, New Yorker managing editors had a life expectancy hardly greater than that of May flies. In addition to hiring & firing managing editors, Ross was combating his restlessness by having the office walls torn down. The editorial floor was cluttered with scaffolding; workmen bashed out plaster and lath with sledge hammers and crowbars; a chalky haze permeated the halls, assailing-the lungs of staff and visiting contributors...
...Giacometti looks like a tormented Chico Marx; he also sculps and paints with the bug-eyed fury of a Harpo, and creates things undreamed of even in Groucho's philosophy. His subject matter is the human frame; his approach to it destructive. Giacometti hacks, picks and pocks his plaster sculptures until they stand thin as reeds, then he generally smashes them. He saved just enough to make an exhibition in a Paris gallery last week...