Word: wax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woodwork and descend on Versailles, all set to eat Pippin out of house and palace. His daughter's American suitor proposes to merchandise the impoverished monarchy ("The Dukedom of Dallas?-why, ten billionaires would be after it"). All goes well as long as Pippin is content to remain wax in the hands of his advisers. Unfortunately, ermine makes the king, and he is soon drawn to exercise his divine rights...
...from France in 1941 (and became a citizen two weeks ago), falls somewhere between Lardera and Manzu. He has long since left his cubist period behind, and his work has become much more lyrical and expressive. Since his early days, Lipchitz has liked to shape his ideas in wax or clay, then cast them in bronze or transfer them into stone by hiring a stonecutter to do all the work except the finishing touches. His latest work, on exhibition last week at Fine Arts Associates, is a series of 33 small (7¶ in. to 18¶ in.) statuettes formed...
While a few performers struggled over a balky bit of dialogue, the rest of the cast, chorus and crew quit rehearsal for a break. Cigarettes glowed. Wax paper from sandwiches rustled on bare metal chairs. A percolator murmured on a hot plate next to a pile of coffee-stained script books. Six white mice napped in a bird cage in the temporary quiet of Cinderella's kitchen. "They've grown so fast during rehearsal," a prop man said, "that we'll have to get new ones for the show." A bruised plaster pumpkin sat in front...
...from Sälen, near the Norwegian border, to the small town of Mora, deep in the picturesque province of Dalecarlia, looked tougher than ever. Weather on the course veered from dim to foul. At the starting line, mist lay heavy over the hilltops, and skis had to be waxed carefully for cold snow. Later the trail wound into warmer valleys, and Gunnar would have to stop and wax all over again. Downhill slopes, where he might ordinarily have picked up time, were sticky with moist new flakes...
...organized to raise money to supplement the Park Service's meager ($8,000) appropriation, but not all the carvings can be saved from the water. Next best is to copy them accurately, and Sculptor James Hansen and his wife Annabelle are doing this by making impressions in melted wax...