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...positive contributions. With his customary penchant for the pretentious (Johnny Guitar), he slushes up the sound track with angel voices-all, as usual, soprano, apparently on the theory that only girls are nice enough to be angels: he fancy-pants around with his camera in a ludicrous gilt-plaster palace that looks as if it were made of baroque-candy; and he ever-so-reverently overdresses his hovel scenes till they gloom and glow like cheap reproductions of Murillo...
...porcelain exterior of Pamela Turnure, 23, the First Lady's decorative press secretary. The remarks, said she, are "undignified and highly inappropriate." Retreated Glaser under the ire of the White House's youngest staffer: "Hours of painstaking care must be taken to remove antique paper from old plaster walls...Anyone willing to contribute this amount of time and expense is to be commended...
...Caretaker (by Harold Pinter) ups curtain on a West London room that looks like the Pharaoh's tomb of a junkman. There are bales of yellowed newspapers, moldy tennis rackets, scattered bureau drawers, a sink bowl, and a disconnected gas stove graced with a gilt plaster Buddha. There is a lawn mower and a blowtorch. On a rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom. Into this dusty, chilly tomb, English Playwright Pinter deposits three mummies of modern man, who proceed to strip off each...
...Wagners' colonial mansion into a Beverly Hills Parthenon, she capriciously fired three contractors. The result was a Pompeian extravaganza: the ornate staircases wobbled, the floor under Natalie's bathroom (with its sunken 6-ft.-square tub) sagged, the ceiling fell on the enormous canopied bed. Flaky plaster sifted down on Natalie's 20-ft. marble dressing table, sank into a 6-in.-deep sheepskin rug, powdered the antique balustrades cut from the top of Marion Davies' beach castle in Santa Monica, drifted across the lanai, with its his-and-hers swimming pools (Nat's adorned...
...Which is like getting 300 original manuscripts from a front-ranking author. Though the plasters could be used to turn out more and more bronzes, that is not the museum's function or intention. Properly cared for, a plaster will last indefinitely in a dry climate like Israel...