Word: plasters
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There was a faraway look in the marinated eye of a waiter at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. He leaned back against a plaster palm tree, listening to the liquid tones of the songstress running over the lyrics of Bali H'ai. A yokel at a side table dropped his fork. The waiter glared, snatched up the fork, jabbed a clean che at the customer, and sank back against his palm tree...
...drawing of the making of the death mask of Christian Berard was far less cluttered and, for all its quiet horror, easier to take. It showed the smiling corpse of the Paris fashion arbiter elaborately bibbed in preparation for the mold maker, who sat, dabbling in a bowl of plaster, by the deathbed...
South Calcutta is an urban jungle of plaster, stone and faded palms, where reeking slums shelter ten people in a room, and ugly Victorian buildings rise beside modern terraced tenements. It is also a political jungle, inhabited by a million restive refugees, students, clerks, stevedores, mill hands, shopkeepers, petty bankers and lawyers. The lords of this jungle have been the three Bose brothers...
There was always something odd about Edward John Burra. His classmates laughed when they caught him daubing red paint on the noses of classical plaster casts at art school, but they watched in awed wonder when he took to drinking champagne out of ashtrays and washing his face in film developer. When Burra's health forced him to quit school and moderate his prankish ways, he retired to his parents' house in Rye, on England's South Coast, made a studio of his old top-floor nursery and settled down to work while gradually transforming the place...
...flower beds of Mayor Peng Chieh's spacious gardens were littered with bits of wood, plaster and broken glass. A man wrestled with a steam radiator, trying to get it on his shoulder. A coolie, stripped bare to the waist, grinned: 'I didn't like the mayor, anyway...