Word: wax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a wistful little period piece about a gang bang. The film makers -and especially the screenwriter, who based his script on real people from his high school days-wax nostalgic for delicate love and ruined innocence. These commodities were evidently to be found right after World War II down in rural Georgia, where some kids on the way to being good ole boys conduct puberty rites by jumping on the acquiescent body of Billie (Joan Goodfellow). Acquiescent, but not responsive. As the fellows wriggle and writhe, Billie lies there, face turned away, absently tossing pebbles into the swamp...
...campaign director Vin Maloney in a recent interview refuted that claim, saying that city crews clean and wax the floors "after hours and without...
...college, have made thrift the corner stone of their lives. "I'm always looking to use something in a creative way," says Mrs. Butler, 57, who works as a school teacher's aide. "I never buy anything that I can make for myself." She has recycled melted wax into candles, wraps gifts in old newspapers and never buys on credit. Still, the Butlers have been unable to set aside funds for retirement. "We had hoped that we would travel after we retired," says Mrs. Butler, "but now I'm not so sure that we are going...
...London Wax Museum is located at 179 Tremont St. in Boston. Who says the Red Sox is the only culture you can get at Bean Town. This place has 38 different waxen scenes, and all of them should have been candles. No figurine--except for maybe Frankenstein's--looks like anybody in particular. Great fun for the whole family, especially if the family is stoned out of their minds...
...even as Nixon conferred, they wheeled the big jets into the hangars at Andrews Air Force Base to give them a fresh coat of turtle wax and burnish them for the trip this week to the Soviet Union, which will be bigger, more profound and yield more headlines that the workers in the White House will clip, measure and assay...