Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cops. Half of Harlem's buildings are officially classified as "deteriorating" or "dilapidated," but no classification-official or otherwise-can adequately describe their garbage-strewn hallways and rotting, rickety staircases, their rat-infested rooms and grease-caked stoves where the roaches fight one another for space, their crumbling plaster and Swiss-cheese ceilings...
...that half the output of 650 kinds of industrial products are "below world levels" of quality, and that rejects cost $200 million a year. Prague, once called "the Golden City," is a mangy metropolis of sooty streets and faulty plumbing. Everywhere signs warn "Pozor pada omitka" (Beware of falling plaster). Railroads cannot haul all the coal needed for power. "What did we use before candles?" runs a favorite joke. The answer: "Electricity...
...tradition. Yet his sculpture has not always pleased a church that takes pride in the Michelangelo who painted St. Peter's Sistine Chapel ceiling. In 1947 the Holy Office denounced as "obscene" a Manzù crucifixion scene that depicted a totally naked Christ. Last year, after viewing a plaster cast of the doors, Vatican representatives objected to four of the panels as too profane: Cain and Abel, death by hanging, death of a mother, death in space. Manzù, who is not a practicing Roman Catholic, staged a studio sit-in, finally got his own way by threatening...
...Teddy will have to stay in the pipe and canvas contraption, no one can yet be sure. But he will not be moved for at least six weeks, and there is still a chance that his fractures will require surgical repair. He may be outfitted with a brace or plaster cast, but in any case he faces three to six months in bed, possibly in a Foster frame...
...whole parade of the last 80 years of art unwinds through a continuous maze of 37 galleries from Rousseau's primitives to Claes Oldenburg's plaster hamburgers, which the museum-swallowing hard but still proud of being first-says it bought before anyone else got the hunger. Of the museum's 1,800 paintings and sculptures, some 550 are on view, more than double the previous number. The sculpture garden grew to three-fourths of an acre, where weeping beeches hang over a raised level roofing on top of a 60-ft. by 75-ft. exhibition hall...