Word: wax
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...best years, the Catalan promoter, with his mustache wax and lobster telephones and soft watches, his florid metaphorical chitchat and beady eye for the American jugular, finally managed to annihilate his earlier self-Mad Dog Sal, the insecure and ravenously aggressive young lounge lizard whose tiny, enameled visions helped create one of the extreme moments of dandyist revolt and modernist disgust. But today the only interesting thing about Dali is the obsessive grip of his pose. He has convinced a public that could hardly tell a Vermeer from a Velásquez that he is the spiritual heir to both...
Instead, Anderson is turning toward Massachusetts, where the Republicans wax more liberal (witness former Gov. Francis Sargent, gubernatorial challenger Francis Hatch, and former Sen. Edward Brooke), and where there are plenty of independents who may subscribe to Anderson's new political blend. He has also canvassed heavily on the state's college campuses--another reason he might finish a respectable third, and perhaps even second, in the state's GOP primary...