Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plaster casts of the ceiling, minus the butter, hang on the second floor walls. Beside them are cases that once housed collections, including one of collegiate baseball paraphenalia...
...turns out, the internship has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Now, as I climb the stairs of the State House each morning, I don't need to plaster on a fake smile. Even at nine in the morning, I'm excited to be there...
...main plaza, where galleries selling O'Keeffe wannabes vie with Indians hawking turquoise and silver in the long colonnade of the Palace of the Governors. You enter through glass doors trimmed with New Mexican pine. The installation is spare and elegant, as are the 10 galleries with glowing plaster walls, earth-colored concrete floors and skylights that subtly draw viewers from room to room...
...dirt and destruction than we had ever seen indoors. The furniture was falling apart, and every abandoned wall-hanging--from the grubby Olympics posters to the 8-by-10 foot American flag (in patriotic red, gray and blue)--was a cover for a "Shawshank Redemption"-style hole in the plaster walls...
...that the general way we constructed the whole structure is entirely consistent with the practices of 1595," says Peter McCurdy, the meticulous master carpenter who directed the construction project. Still, some compromises had to be made. For example, goat hair had to be used to give body to the plaster because no cow hair of the proper--and authentic--length could be found...