Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style. The standard description--that it is "reminiscent of buildings in New Orleans and Italy"--is none too definitive. Miss Porritt suggests that the building is "vaguely Italian Renaissance, although not in the same sense that Sever is Italian Renaissance." And an imaginative parent took one look at the plaster model and pegged it "houseboat motif...
During a predawn card game with a guard in his Dallas County jail cell, Ruby asked for a glass of water and, when left alone, charged headfirst into a plaster cell wall. He suffered only a two-inch cut and a knot on his skull; moments later, guards found him trying to rip his white jail uniform into strips - presumably to fashion a noose...
...with wood over the load-bearing structural parts of the home. Wood and aluminum are wrestling for the right to be in window frames; steel and aluminum are fighting over outside door frames and sills. Gypsum board for interior walls has proved cheaper and faster to install than wet plaster, but it now has challengers in plywood finished by a photo process to look like expensive paneling and Masonite precoated with wallpaper or imitation wood grain...
...memoirs, the gaudy story of his career as manager and trainer of prizefighters-the most famous of whom was Jack Dempsey. One chapter of that book, published in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, contained Kearns's claim that he had packed the bandages on Dempsey's fists with plaster before the 1919 bout in which Dempsey gave Jess Willard a painful beating. Dempsey had no knowledge of the deed, Kearns said, and when SPORTS ILLUSTRATED approached Dempsey before printing the Kearns story, the old champ hotly denied the whole thing. His denial was printed along with Kearns's story...
...move. The Louvre's Venus de Milo, weighing more than a ton, arrived in Japan to grace the summer Olympics, having lost four chips of plaster and marble added during a 19th century restoration (they were glued back on). To enhance the New York World's Fair, Michelangelo's 6,700-lb. Pietà was eased off its pedestal in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, slid down planks lubricated with laundry soap and packed in a double box with a foam plastic that cushions the marble and supports it by filling every cranny...