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 2009

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.

The Night We Saw Shehenshah 2010

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 2010

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 2008

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

The Paprika Ewer 2008

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

The Paprika Ewer Marc Fitten 2008

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

THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008

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 Jen 2008

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 2004

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

hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2004