plaster-of-paris

• “The fact that he is so dedicated to his work that he actually * reads* the lifeless, stultifying, plaster-of-paris prose of Jimmy Carter.”

  Putting the Carter before the horse

• “And this is what's important — his costume was composed of a grey wig that spilled over his forehead, a beard and moustache, black leather pants and a heavy jacket and most importantly, a metal fore-arm guard that looked suspiciously like a plaster-of-paris cast painted over with silver glitter.”

  Fictionaut: The Night We Saw Shehenshah

• “I was trying to find some polyurethane bandage strips in a hurry without going the eBay route because I needed to make a penguin wing mold for a sculpture project, the poly I had was long dead, and I wanted something a bit easier to use than plaster-of-paris bandages.”

  Making Light: Open thread 136

• “The whole experience has been reduced to a shoebox's worth of mental snapshots that blend in my head with favorite scenes from camp-themed movies: "Was that the year I made a plaster-of-paris face mask or chopped the head off a sex-crazed counselor?”

  Joel Schwartzberg: Revering Summer Camp, or Maybe Just the Memories

• “  She thought about gluing the handle back on and using plaster-of-paris for the hole.”

  Fictionaut: The Paprika Ewer

• “A beggar child had come up to the Honda City holding up a beautiful plaster-of-paris statue of the Buddha.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE WHITE TIGER

• “It kind of reminds me of those plaster-of-paris casts that pregnant women sometimes do of their pregnant bellies, only with clothes.”

  It's Rude to Stare

• “She thought about gluing the handle back on and using plaster-of-paris for the hole.”

  Fictionaut: The Paprika Ewer

• “It is an absurd little gallery, absurdly imitating the Louvre, with just such compartments and pillars as you see in the noble Paris gallery; only here the pillars and capitals are stucco and white in place of marble and gold, and plaster-of-paris busts of great Belgians are placed between the pillars.”

  Little Travels and Roadside Sketches

• “Well, it turns out that I don't have to help seven year olds plaster-of-paris pencil holders.”

  hamletwildie Diary Entry

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