Reference material for indoor temperature comparisons was a prototype made with ordinary ceramic bricks, plastered on both sides.
In the early 1960's, the innovative white plaster casts of ordinary people doing ordinary things in a realistic environment had earned Mr. Segal an international reputation.
However, since the packing nut is almost always below the surface of the tile or plaster wall, an ordinary wrench will not do.
Along with several drawings and much of "The Music Room" work, he supplied ephemera from "The Store," a 1961 project for which he rented a Lower East Side storefront and used it to sell plaster renditions of ordinary household goods.
The publishers, who paid out almost half a million pounds for this book, clearly covet a fortune in return, though they seem a bit anxious about it, having sent the book out to hundreds of "ordinary readers", whose thoughts are plastered over the publicity materials.
For ordinary scrapes a normal bandage (or plaster, for our friends across the pond) is probably still more than sufficient — this is for people whose healing processes are inhibited, or for whom frequent dressing changes are impossible or inconvenient.
Mr. Segal, who died at 75, was best known for full-body plaster casts of real, seemingly ordinary people that conveyed a ghostly sense of the spiritual desolation of modern man.
If the water found on comets contains an earth-like ratio of deuterium (a form of hydrogen that has a heavy nucleus) to ordinary, light hydrogen, that would favour the plastering theory.
Paint peeled and plaster popped.
But inside he saw something that left an indelible mark: walls plastered with blown-up photographs of ordinary black people that museumgoers seemed to find compelling enough to stand before and examine.
Ordinary Algerians, in the grimy downtown streets where great chunks of plaster are peeling from the Haussmann-style buildings, in the shabby cafes made shabbier by five years of fluctuating oil prices, and in the mass demonstrations, say there is no going back.
