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...built, and workmen set about moving the statue into its new home. But the goat was still at work, and in the midst of the heavy task the workmen's cable broke, and the Buddha crashed to the ground, badly cracked. To the priests' surprise, the plaster was only a shell; beneath it shone the glint of metal. Trai Mitra's old plaster Buddha was a mere mummy case concealing a beautiful sculptured image wrought of 60% gold. Though to the pious Buddhist one divine image is as valuable as another, regardless of intrinsic worth...
...room in the museum will be redesigned to display the skeleton. The bones will be fastened to a steel framework along one side, and a plaster-of-paris wall will be built to cover the frame and simulate the rock wall in which the reptile was found...
Tests will be conducted over the spring vacation to determine the decible reduction effected by applying heavy coats of paint to the walls and by providing thresholds and gaskets for the doors. Gropius, however, had recommended the application of a specially designed porous plaster to the walls...
...added that he knew the sound-proofing was faulty when the buildings were designed. "I wrote the authorities for the right to plaster the walls, but the project was on a tight budget and I could not get permission...
...watching his family make patterns with the sand on a Long Island beach. That was when he conceived the idea for his sand-sculpturing technique. Now his most important sculpture is made by modeling details in reverse patterns in wet sand and then filling these molds with concrete or plaster of paris. The result is a kind of bas-relief...