Word: plasters
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Avol has spruced up his temporary roost with fresh coats of paint, but residents of the four-story building tell of crumbling plaster, missing windows, faulty plumbing, roaches and rats. "I catch a minimum of ten mice a week," says Tenant Jose Cavasos. Even if Avol substantially improves the building, his eye may be on the bottom line: the apartment house is up for sale...
...responds patiently -- "I'm not a very good writer" -- and laboriously signs with his left hand, which he learned to write with after coming home to Russell, Kans., a horribly wounded veteran of the war against Nazi Germany. It took three years, seven operations and months in a plaster cast that encased him from neck to waist for him to recover. Compared with that ordeal, says Dole's younger brother Kenny, "running for President will be a piece of cake...
...decision to leave his father dominates the conversation between the two Gars and is the underlying source of tension. But this tension is one-sided, as we see only one brief glimpse of what the father truly feels. His face is often too plaster-like to gain any true insights...
Concrete, plaster, wood and water flooded a room in 8 Prescott St. earlier this week in the latest of a series of structural problems that have plagued the freshman dormitory this year...
...Today, although interest in the frillier postmodern forms is waning, many architects and designers are taking a further leap in the same direction. They are concerned less with issues of style and more with exploring the character and connotations of building materials -- the nuances of woods and stone and plaster and metals and plastics and finishes. The best designs of 1986 in almost every instance exemplify the new materialism...