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Along the walls and in the corners of a Manhattan gallery, eerie creatures of wrinkled plaster and bronze stalked or stood like forlorn little Whiffenpoofs that had somehow lost their way. Slender as spindles, they vaguely resembled men & women emaciated and stretched to the snapping point. They bore themselves with a fragile grace; but their flesh was pitted and pocked, as if the crusted plaster had been dabbed on in a single feverish instant...
Years later in Paris, putting aside the things his father taught him, he experimented with paint, bronze, wooden cages, plaster balls, and a model of a nose. He once built a cage-like wooden house, placed the skeleton of a flapping bird in the attic, and a spinal column dangling downstairs, and called the whole thing "The palace...
When he took up sculpture, the plaster dust was soon ankle-deep on his studio floor, for Giacometti smashed almost everything he did. (He explained: "They were made to last only a few hours.") Sometimes his friends rescued a head or a torso or an arm. These won praise among the forward fringe in Paris and London, but not in his native Switzerland...
...Churchill once paused to consider Sir Stafford Cripps, whose plaster-saintly face is enlivened by a perennially red nose. "A very satisfactory division of labor," said Churchill. "I get the drink and he gets the nose...
...energy that had been used up in riots was now put to more creative purposes, such as decorating one's room. In these efforts anything went. If the undergraduate had a coupled of Roman plaster busts handy, they would naturally, go on the mantelpiece. Mecrachagum pipes might decorate a table, odd signs on the walls, and if the resident could afford one of the new upright planes, he could be rightly proud of his interesting, if overstuffed, room...