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...with the spire rising to a height of 4 1/2 inches. The spire, and buttresses of the hall, like all the more intricate designs in the model, were constructed of easily workable brass, while the bodies of the buildings were constructed of either savogran, a hard plastic similar to plaster of parts, or carved from wood...
...shirts, carrying Tommy guns. Small-arms fire was rattling from the Binh Xuyen a couple of blocks down the road, and Nationalist Tommy-gun fire rattled back at them. Next came the sullen, unmistakable, paralyzing crump of mortars, three in the courtyard outside, filling headquarters with dust and falling plaster. A deep red flame spouted out of a weapons carrier parked next to our car. Black, oily smoke drifted upwards. We could hear a staccato cry ai ai ai from someone who had been...
...more modern policy replaced the old goals when present curator Charles E. Kuhn took over in 1932 and proceeded to remove a number of the permanently installed historical plaster casts in favor of original contemporary works and temporary twentieth century exhibitions. Today the museum's collection of modern German painting and Bauhaus architecture and design are considered the best of their kind outside Germany itself...
...give Editor Bernier a first tantalizing peek. Back next day at 6 p.m. for a daylight look (the family sleeps all morning, siestas in the afternoon), Rosamond Bernier found a treasure trove of Picassos, most of them stacked dustily against the medical cabinets used by Dr. Pablin to keep plaster casts of his patients' deformed feet. Cherished but neglected, one Picasso canvas had a hole punched in it. In all, there were some 20 oils and sketches done by young Pablo at the age of 13 or 14-sure-stroked, somber portraits of Picasso's family...
...Spanish model, explaining: "We called her 'La saucisse' [ the sausage]." Then, spotting a rare 1904 engraving, Le Repas Frugal, he said: "I didn't know they had this. It's worth a fortune." But what held Picasso's attention longest was a plaster Madonna from his boyhood home. Exclaimed Picasso: "We had this statue in Malaga. Actually, it's a statue of Venus which father bought in the flea market. He painted on the tears, draped the figure in plaster-soaked cloth. Now my niece has made a crown of flowers. Good! Good...