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...Vivian Beaumont Theater is actually full of is an incredible, moldering array of Victorian furnishings and doodads, including a grandfather clock that intones Land of Hope and Glory and sprouts tiny Union Jacks. The set is a top-floor apartment in an architecturally senile London building. The ceiling leaks plaster, the walls are held upright by a huge wall divider, and one can step unwarily on a rug, as Eugene does, and sink a foot or so through the rotting floorboards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Fiendishly Clever Frolic | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...After high school, Sendak took a job with a Manhattan window-display house, where he constructed papier-mache and plaster models, including Snow White and the seven dwarfs. "It was the schlock of the 1930s that made up my creative mentality," says Sendak. He continues: "Two years ago, I saw Walt Disney's Pinocchio and loved it, even though the Blue Fairy looked like Joan Bennett and Cleo the Goldfish looked like a drag queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Happy Year to Be Grimm | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...behind his desk. The glowing space of light and warmth, along the book shelves and above the desk, summon for me a wealth of English recollections and associations, olden days in ancient places green and golden, many good hours of secure existence. I think of this also: lead-paint plaster, roach-invasion, rat-infestation of those desperate tenement-quarters on the other side of town in which 10,000 black and Puerto Rican families lead their hungry, hot and agonizing lives. I ask myself: Is it for this, for cruelties like these, for disproportions on this scale, that...

Author: By Jonathan Kozol, | Title: Harvard's Role In Perpetuation Of Class-Exploitation | 10/31/1973 | See Source »

Then larger bombs appeared. A plastic sack containing three pounds of plaster gelatin was discovered in a major subway station after an Irish-accented caller alerted the press. A bomb concealed in a railway hobbyist's manual blew up in the face of Joanna Knight, a 25-year-old Stock Exchange secretary, as she was opening the morning mail. She suffered hand, face and arm injuries. Her boss, 61-year-old Exchange General Secretary George Brind, was also injured. Hours later a book bomb exploded in the mail room of the Bank of England, blowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Bombs of Summer | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...SHOWS me the closet, with its peeling plaster and decayed odor. Inside is one dress, two pastel sweaters, and a blanket. She closes the closet door and confides--"I've just lost about 30 lbs. I didn't lose that much in the top. I just went on a diet and started starvin'. Starvin'. No, really I got ill and that helped me a lot, my appetite with food. I used to weigh 175. Uh, I want to get to between 120 and 125. That's my normal weight. I have low blood pressure and I have to weigh that...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: Talking With Lary Ann | 8/21/1973 | See Source »

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