Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hello to the Girls. No one environment is right for all the centuries, it was decided, and there is no bare white plaster anywhere in the galleries. Instead, moderns hang against natural-colored monk's cloth, and old masters are shown against lustrous shades of velvet. Despite elegant walls, Brown and his staff of nine curators have chosen not to impress by clutter: a small but prize array of impressionists and postimpressionists, including a magnificent Cézanne still life that seems to tilt a plate of cherries into the viewer's mouth, is brought together to demonstrate...
...caches were dispersed over an area a mile square, each plane was allotted a predetermined bunker or corrugated-iron building. Two hours later, as the Viet Cong were combing through the wreckage, another wave of Air Force F-100 and F-105 fighter bombers swept in over Phuqui to plaster the surprised V.C. again. Phuqui was the repository of 12% of all North Viet Nam's ammunition-and fully half of it was destroyed in the one-two punch, bringing to 10% the total of Viet Cong arms stores destroyed since U.S. retaliatory air strikes began last month...
...either vulgar or epicene, and need a supercilious, tuxedo-skinned British barman to insult and be insulted by. The two sons present would like the two fathers present to drop dead. When the girls express their contempt by simultaneously breaking wind and then pelt the place with tennis balls, plaster spills, roof beams totter, and it becomes clear that Kopit is one of the cosmic jokesmiths who want playgoers to read books of revelation between the wisecracks. What Tennis may portend is that self-contained worlds, either private clubs or entire civilizations, invite and perhaps deserve destruction. Nevertheless, the play...
...overpressure to as high as 10 Ibs. per square foot. But nothing broke. Officials of the Federal Aviation Agency began to break out in smiles. Maybe the booms sure to be caused by high-flying supersonic transports would not be so bad after all. It was obvious that plaster and glass were standing up well. And they were getting hit with five times the average jolt that supersonic planes gave the 750,000 residents of Oklahoma City up to eight times a day in tests earlier this year. During those tests, the FAA answered 12,558 telephone calls and letters...
...bronze man upon a bronze horse, and who salutes? Put a plaster Eisenhower in a real Jeep, and the art world cheers. For in today's sculpture, both traditional subject matter and traditional techniques have gone by the board. Where once marble and bronze held sway, sculpture is now made of plastics, automobile fenders, even fur, carpeting and burlap. In place of the commemorative bust, the symbolic nude or heroic grouping, there are now polyester broads, overstuffed light switches, 3-D inside-out doughnuts, stuffed-leather totems, and well-welded remnants of the new Iron Age. The definition...