Word: wax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Will the real Michael Jackson please stand up or, in this case, sit down? The reclusive singer was at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London last week to witness the debut of his life-size look-alike. The wax Jackson, for which the singer posed last November, has an electric bulb twinkling in its right eye, the jeweled glove on the outstretched right hand is studded with tiny strobes, and the silver waistcoat also lights up. After a close inspection, the sleek and shiny original pronounced his nondancing double to be "excellent, really good." Then Jackson went outside...
What they are, the explains, is "really a mixed media," since he uses applied canvas, wax, and modeling paste to create them "You somehow manage to create a really strong tension between the flatness of the canvas and the applied materials,' Ahr says...
...Tatti offers a very unique environment" for advanced scholarship on the Italian Renaissance. Clubs said. "It's a total environment, like a river delta or a rain forest." Asked how she felt about the appointment. Clubb replied, "as you can see, it does make me wax political. I'm very happy about...
...firm founded in 1886 that produced the first dry-cell la battery. Union Carbide played a key role in the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Over the years many of the firm's products, including Eveready batteries, Glad bags, Prestone antifreeze and Simoniz car wax, have become popular items in America's households. But the company's best customers are businesses. Major products include polyethylene and other petrochemicals, industrial gases like acetylene and argon, and pesticides. Such industrial lines accounted for 79% of sales...
...cloud of thick gray smoke and the pungent scent of burning wax wafted above the jumble of gravestones in Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery last Thursday. It was All Saints' Day, and thousands of Poles had crowded into the historic burial ground to light candles in memory of the dead. This year the solemn tradition had a special poignancy. The photograph of a frail, youthful man in clerical collar had been nailed to a tree near an unmarked plot that has become the unofficial monument to those who died in the months following the imposition of martial...