Word: wax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exactly at eleven, as many servants as there are of gentlemen and ladies, come in with each of them two wax candles, and in procession we follow to the gallery at the head of the great staircase, and file off of different rooms. This is high life: but I would not have parted with my humble cottage at Milton for the sake...
...have spent weeks trying (and failing) to duplicate an Aztec fish of flexible silver plates inlaid with gold. The earlier goldworking cultures of Peru used hammered sheets as their basic material, but the Colombian artisans preferred to cast their images from gold. They were masters of the lost-wax technique, whereby a model of clay and charcoal was formed and then covered with thin sheets and threads of finely worked beeswax; this was mantled with clay and dried, then heated, so that the wax ran out of the mold and molten metal could be poured in to take its place...
...Woody Guthrie's eloquent pleas for the migratory workers during the Depression. Commercial country was born in the 1920s out of an amalgamation of American folk, British airs and hymns, and Negro gospel and blues. The New York record companies sent their men South to make wax discs of such performers as Samantha Bumgarner and Fiddlin' John Carson. Then they found the Carter Family, hillbilly virtuosos from Virginia, and the first idol of country, Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933). Country was off and running...
...general you can always take Stoppard to town philosophically. When the critics start to interfere with the play in Hound you might even get as far as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, as you could wax sententious about discovering our own fantasies by acting them out, in the paradoxical and not-to-be-revealed ending of Magritte. But what is impressive is that all this is done so lightly, so cleverly, that it ought to embarrass the critic to get heavy about it. Stoppard's plots are so well devised, every funny line is so well ensconced in its context, that...
...Chrysler will fit recalled cars free of charge with a redesigned sensor (retail price: $2) still located in the radiator. The new device consists of strips of metal that bend infallibly at 60° to open the recirculation valve. In other words, Chrysler has abandoned the whole ball of wax...