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Painter Zerbe set out to find a new medium. The answer was polymer tempera, a plastic mixture developed by one of Zerbe's former students at the Boston Museum's art school. Polymer tempera is made by mixing polyvinyl acetate, a bland white plastic (which is also used as a binder for paper diapers), with softener and ammonia. The result is a fast-drying medium as easy to handle as gouache but with as much body as oil. Last week 16 of Zerbe's new plastic paintings were on view at Manhattan's Alan Gallery. Painter...
...show's best items, Zerbe set an old man with vertically furrowed face and sharply structural features against a background of high buildings. The man's face seems to be made of the same rough masonry as the building; Zerbe mixes mica, sand or flint with his plastic to give a rougher surface. Three Doors is a semi-abstraction in quiet reds, mauves and greens which conveys the dilapidated dignity of the hallways of old brownstone tenements...
Liquid Wallpaper. An embossed paint roller that can decorate walls with wallpaper-like designs was brought out by Sherwin-Williams Co. The plastic roller comes in five patterns must be used with a new Sherwin-Williams paint called Applikay. Roller price...
...Commander D. J. Giorgio and Lieut. J. G. Morrow, anesthesiologists at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, have worked out a stratagem for soothing young surgical patients. Their device: a plastic space-chief helmet with a tube to admit oxygen and cyclopropane gas. After the space chief fogs off, he gets ether like ordinary mortals...
...Surgical Spray. A plastic surgical dressing that can be sprayed on wounds was put on sale to physicians by Aeroplast Corp., Dayton. First developed in cooperation with the Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory for mass treatment of burns, such as in an atomic attack, the spray dressing has since been used on all types of wounds. The transparent plastic permits a check without changing the dressing, can be stripped off easily. Price...