Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estimated 38 square feet of plaster fell from the ceiling. One of the workmen who repaired the room yesterday said that that amount of plaster would have been "very, very heavy" and would probably have seriously injured anyone beneath...
...Donahue '64 was the only person in the room at the time of the accident. "I was just studying," he said, "when I thought I heard rain. Then I looked up and a big chunk came out of the ceiling." Donahue, visibly shaken by the experience, said that the plaster crashed to the floor less than a foot from where he was sitting. "The chair I had been sitting in 15 minutes before was completely covered," he said...
Time was not kind to the frescoes. De tails done in oil peeled off, the plaster cracked, smoke and grime clouded the colors, and a number of clumsy attempts at retouching made matters even worse. Finally, last April, the Italian government hired the Milanese restorer, Ottemi Delia Rotta, to try his hand. Painstakingly he removed the crusts of dirt, varnish and overpainting, injected casein glue behind places that were peeling. Today Monza's hidden treasures are hidden no longer...
...socialite mother's neck with slender, manicured hands. Edge really goes for hands-only last year it disposed of a sadistic multiple strangler called Big Frank, who had an enormous pair of them. For his services to soap, Big Frank's hands were cast in plaster as if they were Stokowski...
Love and the Frenchwoman (Auerbach; Kingsley International) is a plaster-of-Paris whale (2 hr. 23 min.) of a picture from the French Old Wave-artificial but amusing. In form, the film is a cinemanthology of seven short subjects, each written by a famous French novelist or scenarist, each directed by a different man, each played by different actors, and intended altogether to dramatize the seven ages of woman. In effect, it is the usual shallow but intelligent French discussion, toujours gai and sometimes icily ironic, of what makes the world go round...