Word: wax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drawbacks of the mohair strips are that they tend to ice up in some weather and may fill up with klister if someone ahead of you is using wax...
Finally, one must conclude that Air Force One and the marvelous technology that sends it round the globe have become a kind of a presidential hobby, replacing the medicine ball (Hoover) and the stamp collection (F.D.R.). Crew members lather that beautiful plane with Glass Wax before a trip, polish it to a mirror finish with compressed-air buffers and add tire black to the ten wheels. They fill the hold with the tenderest chicken and juiciest steak, packing it all away in dry ice with flawless precision so that each day's meals come...
...political clout in the city. No elected official can stand against them. If the Federal Government is to bail the city out, municipal government as we have known it in New York City must come to an end. This may not be so bad. While it is hard to wax rhapsodical over the prospect of Burns, Simon and Ford running the city's finances, at least such a troika would be insulated from the kind of political pressure that has made it impossible for any elected official in New York to produce a sane budget...
...marble has the soft, veiled surface of wax. The play between smooth volume and wiry, chiseled line that gave such life to Nadelman's Greek models is not there...
...wanderings of freer "black music" and the excesses of more melodic (read electronic) music. Davis and Ghetto Mysticism have been nearly alone as proponents of free music in Boston, and anyone whose ears have been plugged against the softer wares of so-called jazz-folk can pull out the wax this week at the Jazz Workshop through Sunday. Cover's only...