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Francis Coppola also spilled a lot of blood in The Godfather, adding his bit of realism to the lore of gore. Until he came along, special effects men would fire wax pellets filled with cosmetic blood at actors who were to be shot. When they were "hit," they would yell "ouch!" or whatever else the scriptwriter demanded. Blood oozed out and the audience usually got the point. But the pellets left a blotch on the skin, which was not realistic in closeups. Ever the perfectionist, however, Coppola wanted not only blood but bullet holes. Smith covered the actor...
...spindly jojoba thrives on the arid conditions of the Southwest. Indians of the region, including the Pima and Papago tribes, once used the bean's oily wax as a hair conditioner to protect against the drying effects of sun and wind...
Draped in a most unladylike damp cloth, the gray clay figure looked more like Aphrodite rising from the sea than the future Queen of England. But the royal figure of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, will be appropriately demure by the time it joins the waxed likenesses of Prince Charles, 32, her husband-to-be, at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. A plaster mold was made of Sculptor Muriel Pearson's feat of clay, from which a wax figure is being shaped; later it will be colored and dressed. The Di will be cast shortly before...
...beginning to wax eloquent on the "granitic formations" that absorb moisture and the "confluence of three rivers" that cool the air when a journalist for the newsweekly Le Point whispered "fifty-two to forty-eight" in his ear. Without any noticeable change of expression or vocal inflection, he continued his explanations of cloud formations...
...Reformation that befell the English church is nearly half a millennium past by now. Henry and Catherine have long crumbled into dust. But the 2-ft. by 3-ft. parchment petition, headed Sanctissimo in Christo and bemedaled with ribbons and the 75 red wax seals of the petitioners, looks as imposing as it did on the day in 1530 when it arrived on Pope Clement's desk. It was long filed away in the Vatican, but 100 years ago, the church opened its ancient archives to selected scholars. This year, to commemorate that date, the Vatican...