Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year of separations, divorce and scandal--her annus horribilis. The emotional low point may have come on Nov. 20, her 45th wedding anniversary, when Windsor Castle caught fire. Now, just in time for the 50th anniversary, the restoration of the castle has been completed. To regild the plaster, 500,000 sheets of gold leaf were used. Replacing the ceiling of St. George's Hall required 350 mature oaks. The ceiling that the fire destroyed dated from the 1820s, and Prince Charles, believing it was "awful," called for a new design. In a personal touch, Prince Philip made a sketch with...
...extravagance, but wasn't. Gehry was able to lock up enough of it to cover the museum when the Russians, in 1993, started dumping their stocks of the normally ultraexpensive metal on the market.) Their forms swelling and deflating in a strongly rhythmical way, large trunks of glass, plaster and titanium rise to the top of the five-story structure; they house utilities, a stair and an elevator...
...walls of his office, pictures of plaster figures of dinosaurs found in Mongolia, a reproduction portrait of a Manchu by a Jesuit and a scroll written in Jurchen calligraphy, an extinct language from northern China. Then there are his bookshelves, where books about everything from Dharma art to Bronze Age transportation are written in languages including French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic...
...first essay of the book aims to determine whether or not the placebo is "much ado about nothing"; co-authors Arthur Shapiro and his wife Elaine present the reader with a flurry of esoteric yet entertaining historical tidbits. Though the knowledge that the 17th-century drug called "Vigo's plaster" was made of viper's flesh, live frogs, and worms may not necessarily be the best conversation-starter, such detail paints an elaborate portrait of the blind, haphazard healing practices of prescientific medics at which even the least scientifically-inclined person can gasp and chuckle...
Kudos go to the University and its architects, who did a fine job balancing the old and the new. The old feeling is maintained through iconic touches like antler chandeliers, plaster casts of the old ceiling and busts of John Harvard and George Washington. But the new structure is evident in the C'est Bon cafe, the meeting rooms, the bright offices and the useful classroom space...