Word: plastering
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...resulting exhibit is not, strictly speaking, obscene, but many of the artists in it use phallic and fecal images to express their feelings about the mayor. William Copley sent in a 1965 painting in which a woman exposes her plump backside. Oldenburg did a series of 48 indefinably nasty plaster versions of Chicago's distinctive red fireplugs, which for diverse reasons remind him of the plug-ugly Chicago cops. He also made a drawing of a "proposed colossal monument" for Chicago showing
Perhaps it's unfortunate that Waletzky chose social work for his heroine's commitment. This setting enables us to view a nice variety of amateur actors--wrinkled faces against decaying plaster--but leads to a misplaced emphasis. We spend almost the first half of the film watching the situation (rent-strike) rather than the girl who is the film's subject...
...began moving ... not in a crazed swirl but along its own planes ... of light and shadows and surface not nearly so nice and smooth as plasterer Super Plaster Man intended with infallible carpenter level bubble ... not so foolproof as you thought bub, little lumps and ridges up there and lines ... like spines on crests of waves of white desert movie sand each one with MGM shadow longshot of the ominous A-rab coming up over the next crest for only the sinister Saracen can see the road and you don't know how many subplots you left up there Plaster...
...part what is so terrifying about the Chinese or the blacks is that we have unconsciously made them symbols for the unknown, unexpected aspects of our inner life. And if we could grow to accept the unknown within ourselves we wouldn't have to plaster every ceiling, every place, every person, until it is a level level level world...
...whose ideas have won out. A giant whirlpool froths and roars in the entrance plaza. Arriving cars will be whisked up a ramp to a parking wing, while guests register in the vast lobby. Most of the hotel, inside and out, is finished in rough white plaster; art works enliven public places, and there are whole walls painted in fierce pink, yellow or purple-all good Mexican colors. The bedrooms are unusually large -some 23 ft. by 14 ft.-and the corridors are 10 ft. wide...