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...laughing at Strawberries record shop on Boylston Street on January 9 at noon. She has come to promote her new album Horses and sign autographs. Strawberries is hip. Somebody at the store has made an altar of Black Ken dolls, melted wax, plastic horses, alligators, kangaroos. Dirt. Ashes. All images in her poems. The altar stands in an alcove lined with an arch of over 200 of her albums. Photographers drain the juice on their electronic strobes as people shyly wait with pens. One kid, who stole Patti's "Braves" jersey the other night has come to return...
...book provides a view of history that is akin to walking past displays in a museum. Like a wax museum, it has its chamber of horrors--but everything in good taste and proportion, subdued by esthetic distance...
...wish I could be home violating the truce accords." Down the street, Treasury Secretary William Simon hoards a series of Doonesburys drawn in 1972, when Simon was the nation's first energy czar. They show him issuing fiats from a throne and demanding "my signet ring and hot wax...
...well as under stress, and he has even sent them to the Schellbach Institute in West Germany for a dose of will-strengthening therapy. It must work, since Preiml has at least four medal threats, including 90-Meter Favorite Karl Schnabl. No secrets, Preiml says. Except for his wonder wax initially developed by a Viennese glazier to coat windows...
...technological revolution has finally overtaken cross country skiing, a sport in which birchwood and hickory skis, long socks and knickers were once trademarks. The skis are fiber glass now, and racers are zipped into one-piece racing suits. Still, success probably lies in guessing correctly the two kinds of wax applied separately to tips and tails and under the racer's boot. Maintaining a steady "working pulse on the trail" is also important...