Word: wax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: Imagine chatting with a student online and agreeing to meet up face-to-face for dinner -- only to find yourself tied up in his apartment and sexually abused with hot candle wax for more than 20 hours. That?s what prosecutors allege happened to the 21-year-old victim of Oliver Jovanovic, a Columbia University graduate student whose trial opens Monday in Manhattan...
...face that statement may sound so banal as to be meaningless. Everyone knows sex is involved. My point is different. Sex is the whole ball of wax. If the scandal mortally wounds Clinton, it will be because the public understands the relationship he is alleged to have forged with Monica Lewinsky. It will be because they had sex and because of the kind of sex they...
...years, the paper and the organization have dramatically changed. Today's Crimson is much more geared toward campus issues than was the politically charged paper of a quarter century ago. Members of The Crimson are much more diverse in terms of gender, ethnicity and socio-economic status. Typewriters, hot wax and lead slugs have given way to computers, QuarkXPress and an imagesetter...
...featuring full page advertisements and multiple sections, today's Crimson has come a long way from the days of short articles, blurry photographs and wax-coated layouts...
...copy on the newsroom's battered Royal typewriters; editors fine-tuned the typescript with ball-point pens; down in the shop, typesetters retyped the copy to produce spools of paper punch-tape; those tapes were fed to Compugraphic, which in turn produced printed galleys that were dried, coated with wax, and pasted up on cardboard "flats" for proofing...