Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small buildings, seldom larger than a half inch cube, are carved from molded blocks of savogran, a kind of plaster of Parts which dries quickly and firmly. Spires and towers are of brass, and fences are of copper wire...
...slow city, solemn friendly (when its masters permit it) and relatively clean-especially near the center. Dirt increases in direct proportion to distance from the Kremlin. Not even last week's ceremonial ablutions could douse Moscow's habitual smell-a musty and ageless compound of wet plaster, cabbage and inadequately dressed furs. Not even last week's hectic carnival rumpus could exaggerate the Muscovites' devotion to their white-walled, golden-headed city...
...writing his song lyrics and comedy routines. "A trial separation," the couple's business manager called it, "merely for a period of readjustment." Anyway, Comedian Kaye got a chic sendoff: smartchat Vogue appeared with an interpretive photograph of him, ringed with profound symbols (a piccolo, an umbrella, a plaster brain, a yoyo, a sand pail, a fiddle, a galosh, a pop bottle, a dead chicken, a milk bottle wearing...
...priest of painful distortion, Pablo Picasso. Picasso's recent "Woman in Green"-a pink snout snoring over a swamp of green swirls-had successfully enraged London last year and was now appearing for the first time in the U.S. Georges Braque's supporting contribution was a painted plaster bas-relief of woman as lo, a harried heifer...
...Zaslavsky's desk, near Lenin's plaster head, is a ceramic crocodile, the animal that weeps fake tears. Last week Zaslavsky finally finished his sermon to Edwin L. James and the U.S. press...