Word: wax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a moment in Holy the Firm when Annie Dillard watches a candle flame consume a golden female moth. The moth's abdomen catches in the wet wax and her wings "ignited like tissue paper, enlarging the circle of light in the clearing." Her antennae crackle, her legs disappear and her body is reduced to a glowing shell. "And then," relates Dillard, "this moth-essence, this spectacular skeleton, began to act as a wick ... She burned for two hours, until I blew...
...House of Wax (in 3-D) at 5:45, 7:45, 9:20 and special midnight shows Friday and Saturday. Star Wars are still being fought over at the Sack Charles I (227-1330) at 8, 10 and midnight. Robert Altman's California gothic 3 Women is playing next door, at the Charles II at 7:45 and 10. Jackie Bisset and Nick Nolte play beautiful but vapid people in The Deep at the Cheri III (536-2870) at 8 and 10:15. New York, New York, directed by Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets and Taxi Driver) and starring Robert DeNiro...
...Roof at 4, 6:05, 8:15 and 10:15 through Tuesday, along with The Harder They Come at midnight. Starting Wednesday: House of Wax at 4, 5:45, 7:45, 9:20 and midnight...
Donald Corradi, branch manager of Pyrotronics Inc., the firm that installed the system, yesterday agreed with Mesheau's analysis, saying he had heard of a case where heating some wax triggered a similar heat detection unit...
...steady exodus of pan-Africanists like Isaac from Harvard and Afro shows few signs of stopping. The Afro offices at 77 Dunster will probably preserve the outward stability of the department for the foreseeable future, but that appearance remains a deceptive one, and conditions in Afro may once again wax turbulent if someone should decide to reopen one of those currently airtight boxes in Pandora's closet