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...prerecorded voice will emanate from the vicinity of the mannequin behind the wheel. "All right, you folks, I want those two seats," the facsimile driver will say. "Y'all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those two seats." In the middle of the bus, a plaster of Paris simulacrum of Rosa Parks will just sit there, a mute symbol of the incident that sparked the epic Montgomery bus boycott. "Look, woman, I told you I wanted the seat!" the mock voice of the bus driver will continue. "Are you going to stand up?" The plaster statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Glory and the Glitz | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...largely Hispanic crowd started to build a makeshift shrine at the base of the structure, its owners planned to plaster the billboard over with a photo of Laura Arroyo, accompanied by a police-department phone number for people who may have tips on the slayer's identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions: Miraculous Perception | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

When Johnson & Johnson introduced a new fiber-glass casting tape for broken bones several years ago, executives at Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing flew into a rage. The tape, which sets fractures faster than plaster, was remarkably similar in design and function to a casting tape developed by 3M scientists. The St. Paul-based company quickly sued, charging J&J with violating four of its patents. Last month a federal court backed 3M and ordered J&J to pay $116 million in damages and interest -- the fourth largest patent-infringement judgment in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creativity: Whose Bright Idea? | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...Soviet Foreign Policy Association, an independent think tank on international issues that he helped found in February. Last week Shevardnadze met for 40 minutes with TIME Moscow correspondents John Kohan and James Carney in the association's sparsely furnished Moscow headquarters, which still smells of fresh paint and plaster. Excerpts from the interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shevardnadze Speaks Out | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

After the Los Angeles Times published a negative series on the church last summer, Scientologists spent an estimated $1 million to plaster the reporters' names on hundreds of billboards and bus placards across the city. Above their names were quotations taken out of context to portray the church in a positive light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

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