Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Revolution. At the penultimate performance, an outfit called Le Groupe Panique smashed a huge plaster reproduction of Rodin's Thinker into smithereens, spilling torrents of black ink out of plastic bags. Then, while a girl twisted the arms, legs and heads from plastic dolls, another girl stood by beatifically as a grave-faced artist shaved her groin. Later, Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti intoned his latest work while a naked couple made love vertically in a burlap bag, black light playing on their shoulders. "I should stop it," moaned Director Davis, "but if I do, there will be 28 times...
...moss, seems always to be peeking around the corners of her long black hair with nearly expressionless stealth, and only the keenest humor will send a smile rippling across her lips. It is the same face that appears again and again in her art, penciled on wood, cast in plaster, even peeping from a pasted-on photograph. "Some people have accused me of narcissism," she says, "but it is really easier to use myself as a model...
...Mets. Now, baseball's noblest showman Casey Stengel, 74, has a fractured right wrist. It cracked when he fell on a concrete ramp just before his Mets played an exhibition game against the cadets at West Point. While the Mets were winning, 8-0, surgeons cased Case in plaster and a green sling. Then he returned home, waved his still-solid southpaw, and showed off the durable presence that makes him the most valuable exhibit of all. "If they had a red carpet up there for me like I thought," he winked, "the accident wouldna' happened...
...enjoyed their six-month experience. The booms affected people and houses as far as 16 miles from the flight path. A total of 9,594 people complained of damage to buildings, 4,629 filed formal damage claims, and 229 collected $12,845.32, mostly for broken glass and cracked plaster. The reports on the experiment concluded cautiously that the booms did little harm to properly constructed buildings, but made no commitment about the possible effects of frequent and long-continued booms, or about what kind of buildings could be considered improperly constructed. No items were knocked off walls or shelves...
...Croasdale, his hand just recently removed from a plaster cast, took the hammer throw with a creditable 173 ft., 4 in. toss, but could manage only a second place with his best effort in the shot, an abysmal 49 ft., 2 in. The senior captain, his hand obviously bothering him, atempted only three puts...