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...life. It is how he swallowed his pride as he and his family moved into the basement of his boyhood home so that oilmen could move in above them. How he came home from World War II not alive or dead but in-between, boxed and crated in a plaster cast, shot up in so many places that he was reduced at 21 to a second infancy, learning all over again how to walk, eat, dress himself with clip-on ties and laceless shoes. How he fought his way from county attorney to Senate leader, driving for miles, stopping...
Echelman said she plans to make sturdier plaster molds from the casts. She said she will use the plaster molds to create wax, fired ceramic and latex rubber casts...
...said that because the plaster she used several weeks ago was not sensitive enough, she switched to gelatin, which "gets every pore and follicle...
...including the kitchen sink--no, make that the whole kitchen. Some of the catalog entries for this show, listing title, date and materials, sound more like small towns than works of art: "The Ozymandias Parade, 1985. Tableau: wood, plastic, mirrored plexiglass, fiberglass horses, light bulbs, recorded music, paint, clothing, plaster casts, rubber, metal, galvanized sheet metal, polyester resin, wagon, pork barrel, suitcases, fake money, telephone, miniature flags, and toys, 147 x 349 x 180 [inches...
Bill Clinton had not been President more than five minutes before many Democrats began reacting in horror to the realization that their man was not a plaster saint. Many Republicans, meanwhile, seemed resentful that the Democrats had stolen the election through the devious device of nominating someone who knew...