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...Lindsey with half the plaster of paris at Kirkland under foot eyeing Frenchy Richard after his twenty-second question during the hour...
...observing a plaster foot with the big toe in the middle: Looks better there. Why not change the feet and keep the shoes...
...balcony promenade boys lay on their sides reading or dozing, holding the stumps of legs and arms out to the warm California sunshine. A corpsman went past wheeling a garbage can full of plaster casts which had been removed that...
...friend and early supporter, the late, great Auguste Rodin. Maillol's serene, monumentally detached sculpture was the antithesis of Rodin's flowing, literary, romantic work. Greece was Maillol's spiritual home-"Is this not Greek?" he once exclaimed of his studio, strewn with broken casts, plaster limbs, stony shards. But Maillol was no antiquarian copyist; the resemblance of his work to the Greek rested in his feeling for purities of structure and mass, never in appearance...
...Germans during the occupation. The huge Autumn Salon, which opened during the week, had sent him no invitation to contribute. Aristide Maillol had never followed public events or cared about politics. He refused even to discuss the war. He merely worked on in his Banyuls house, and when plaster became scarce he sent his son to ask the neighborhood dentists for more. In leisure moments, the old man listened to music. Few modern artists have evoked such critical acclaim. Wrote Britain's Augustus John: "We can never tire of a style so pure . . . have enough of a vision...