Word: beeswax
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...Rostov was one of the richest trading towns of medieval Russia, exchanging its honey, furs, wheat and beeswax for Scandinavian amber, Arab coins and Volga pottery. Today, it is a favorite stop for Sputnik International Youth Groups, who stay in the famed Red Chamber that once housed visiting czars, including Peter the Great. Its sprawling kremlin is, next to Moscow's own, the most spectacular in Russia. Forty years abuilding, the Rostov Kremlin incorporates the Metropolitan's residence, churches, service buildings and princely quarters all into one grand architectural ensemble of striking dimension and originality...
...more advanced were the later Quimbaya Indians of Colombia, who discovered how to make alloys of gold and copper and also mastered the sophisticated "lost-wax" technique of casting. First, the Indians made a model of the sculpture in beeswax or resin and covered it with a powdered charcoal and then a thick layer of clay. Next, they applied heat, melting the wax so that it ran out a channel in the hardened clay impression. They then used the impression as a breakable mold, pouring the molten gold in through the channel in the clay. It is the same method...
...belly, perches on a revolving turnstile. Another, in what may or may not be a bikini top, cuddles on a brown floor rug. Still another, falling out of her low-necked dress, lounges against a lavishly embroidered sofa. The skin of each has the alabaster transparency of beeswax or some expensive face cream made with royal jelly. But their hair, their eyes, their mouths, their stiletto-heeled shoes and the upholstery against which they nestle are all an ugly, and yet powerfully nostalgic, Victorian shade of brown. The mordancy of this color and the wistfulness of the girls' expressions...
...pause at that 1967 Xanadu, the Brattle theatre. A grenadine and soda at the Blue Parrot, a bourbon and branch water at the Casa-blanca, and then a Singapore Sling at the Grand Turk. A Union Jack jumbo necktie at Truc and then, sniffing the honey scent of the beeswax candles on the way upstairs, one sits down, coked to the gills but dressed to the teeth, at a Bogie flick to experience the greatest pleasure in the dome: hissing Sidney Greenstreet. That's life, and it's all made possible by Cyrus Harvey and Bryant Haliday who own Brattle...
...buying films took them around Europe, and that is where their catholic taste in true (as the French say) led them to corner the market in Polish movie posters, build up the second most exotic stock of candy in the U.S., and become virtually the No. 1 beeswax candle outlet in this country...