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...Such undesirable Beach Boys fans as George Bush, Michael Deaver and Nancy Reagan (a closet B.B. groupie) thought Watt was out of tune and touch. The Great Conductor himself, Ronald Reagan, called Watt into the Oval Office for a brief musical seminar. Then the President presented him with a plaster statue of a foot with a bullet hole in it, symbolic of where Watt had shot himself...
Finally, the president himself took Watt along the now well-trod path behind the White House woodshed, and when the secretary emerged, he carried a plaster trophy of a foot with a bullet hole in it and announced. "I've learned a lot about the Beach Boys in the last 12 hours. We'll look forward to having them here in Washington to entertain us again...
Contractors will begin work inside the buildings after Commencement. Repairs will include replacing cracked and broken plaster, painting, sealing pipes and replacing cracked bathroom fixtures...
...First Lady invited 500 over for dinner on sound stage No. 9, a vast space where the M*A*S*H series had been filmed. For this occasion, the olive drab was replaced by gay Hollywood eclectic: Ficus trees draped with fairy lights, fiber glass and plaster statues (including one of Bacchus) standing on yards of artificial turf, a 24-ft.-high fountain (from Hello Dolly), painted pastoral backdrops (used in From the Terrace) and Chinese paper lanterns...
...encompasses the work of one of the very few great designers America has produced. Starting in the late 1920s, James labored in a fine frenzy within the airy precincts of haute couture. He believed himself to be an artist, the equal of anyone who created with paint or plaster, and he died at 72 in 1978, just like the burnt-out creator of so much contemporary myth, broke and broken, working out of a cluttered, crumbling studio at Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel. The show contains some 50 pieces, each a practical study in suspended line, upended gravity and undiluted...