Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was never any question as to who should sculpt Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scull, Manhattan's leading pop art patrons. George Segal, of course-the man who has made his reputation by casting his models full size in plaster, then setting them in "environments" that range from a washbasin (for a nude washing her foot) to the whole front door of a brownstone. The only thing holding back Ethel Scull was her dislike of being slathered all over with wet plaster...
...first from the neck down. "Take a natural position," Segal urged. Ethel plunked herself down on a secondhand green velvet Victorian couch, one leg tucked under the other. Segal proceeded to swab down her arms, dress, legs and boots with petroleum jelly. Then, carefully dipping squares of cheesecloth in plaster, he began molding them to her body...
...felt nothing till he got to my bare legs," recalls Ethel. "It was deliciously cool. Then it began to get warm. In five minutes, it was hot." Inside the 1-inch of plaster, her body heat was building up at the same time the plaster itself was heating in the process of drying. "You're doing very well," said her husband reassuringly. "I'm burning up!" cried Ethel, as the plaster dried. To cool her, Husband Scull put a cold compress on her forehead...
...Team Trainer Jean Béranger, were studying the course, a vacationing Austrian lost control of her skis at 50 m.p.h. and plowed into the bride-to-be, breaking her right leg and ankle. Ah well, cracked Christine's sister Marielle, herself a slalom champion: "A white plaster cast won't go so badly with your wedding gown...
Amid eroding plaster and stacked-up cardboard cartons live two newlywedded bohemian idiots, young free-spirited disasters of innocence and honesty. He, execrably played by Beau Bridges, and she, execrably played by Barbara Dana, are about to become parents in name only. Their immediate life plan consists of divorce for themselves, adoption for their unborn child. In intellectual hock to his psychoanalyst, Beau has convinced Barbara that he and she are emotionally unready for parenthood. A hotter squarehead prevails. Hiram Sherman is a proper-minded homosexual, more censorious than Cato the Elder. He has raised Beau since...