Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elevator whose automatic door sometimes opened and closed itself at 30-second intervals all night. I learned to accept windows that had to be forced open and propped to stay open, kitchen cabinets that also had to be forced open (never to close again), lumpy kitchen linoleum, falling bathtub plaster and-ah, well, you told the rest of the story...
...Shell Plaster...
...them within months of moving in-provided they can find a sublessee to take the rap for them. Tales of recalcitrant electronic elevators with wills of their own, narrow corridors ("Every night when I come home it looks more like a cell block"), warping floors, woofing plumbing and cracking plaster have become standard cocktail lore...
...Janis that Pollock finally went, and so did Gottlieb, Motherwell and Willem de Kooning. Last week Janis was the cause of a good deal of speculation with his big new show of "pop art." Instead of the masters of abstractionism, he has gooey cakes of painted plaster by Claes Oldenburg, blown-up comic strips by Roy Lichtenstein, rearranged billboards by James Rosenquist, portraits of cans of soup by Andy Warhol. Janis has apparently spotted a new bandwagon-but he did not discover...
...Center in Vallejo, Dr. Mead is a specialist in physical medicine and deals mainly with patients whose ability to exercise has been catastrophically cut-elderly stroke victims and teen-agers with broken necks from diving accidents, or children paralyzed by polio. The polio patients used to be immobilized in plaster casts for months, until all hope of restoring strength to atrophied muscles had vanished. No more. Even the weakest muscle must be exercised, Dr. Mead insists...