Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIRST-FLOOR room in Barnard Hall--the newest of all Harvard buildings--the roof leaks plaster onto my bed every night...
...leaky, kitschy amber-glass contraption. (It is now on display in the new granite entrance lobby, designed by the firm of Swanke Hayden Connell.) Appropriately, twelve French artisans were imported to fashion a new torch. They needed a year to make a plywood mold, take a plaster cast of the wooden form, make a metal mold over which reinforcing concrete was poured, and finally fashion the repousse copper flame itself--then cover it in nearly a pound of 24-karat gold leaf...
Sometime last night, the plaster fell from the ceiling, crumbling onto the shower stall floor, where Maeglin found it this morning. The bathroom, which Maeglin shares with his floormates, was off limits to residents this morning, fearful of the plaster chunks...
Predictably, the north wing--which was renovated to become a Columbia dorm--was renovated first. The south wing was not ready until December--three months late and with haphazard, peeling paint jobs and already crumbling plaster. Only after more wrangling and meetings with Columbia was the building finally habitable in March 1985, two years after the fire...
...actor. And this says nothing about the lynch mob led by a lady driving a Mister Softee truck (Catherine O'Hara) that blames him for the thieves' depredations. Or about Paul's only means of avoiding their wrath, which is to permit a demented sculptor (Verna Bloom) to plaster-cast his entire quaking self. Oh, well, if you can't be an artist, might as well be a work...