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...Soprano Beverly Sills: "There's no doubt they're very sexy." Agrees California Beauty Salon Entrepreneur Aida Grey: "A bald-headed man is very exciting." About eight months ago, in fact, Grey became aware of the new trend (particularly, she notes, among attorneys) and developed a special wax treatment that removes any remnant fringe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bald Is Beautiful | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...simple: they are groups of canvases butted together in diptychs or triptychs, each surface painted one uniform color-usually a drab, dense gray. It seems an inert formula but it is not, largely because of what Marden learned from Jasper Johns-how to spread a skin of oil and wax over the surface of a canvas with such subtlety that, though monochrome, it is full of half-suppressed or latent incidents. The paintings do become objects of contemplation, like landscapes; but their austerity is so low-keyed as to risk blandness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eight Cool Contemporaries | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...south are the Hall of Generals Wax Museum and the new Old Abilene Town, "an authentic replica of the cattle capital as it was during its roaring hey-days..." As part of this enterprise, a stage coach filled with paying tourists plies up and down the dirt road along the back of the Library building. Just behind the wax museum is a Micro Zoo ("100's of Microscopic Animals and Plants. Projected Alive...A Living Educational Exhibit"). Not surprisingly, there are several fast food stores. And two private campgrounds ("Feel free to inspect our restrooms"). In the campground I looked...

Author: By Martha S. Lawrence, | Title: The Other Presidential Libraries | 10/15/1974 | See Source »

This is a wistful little period piece about a gang bang. The film makers -and especially the screenwriter, who based his script on real people from his high school days-wax nostalgic for delicate love and ruined innocence. These commodities were evidently to be found right after World War II down in rural Georgia, where some kids on the way to being good ole boys conduct puberty rites by jumping on the acquiescent body of Billie (Joan Goodfellow). Acquiescent, but not responsive. As the fellows wriggle and writhe, Billie lies there, face turned away, absently tossing pebbles into the swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Pawpaw Patch | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...campaign director Vin Maloney in a recent interview refuted that claim, saying that city crews clean and wax the floors "after hours and without...

Author: By Richard H. P. sia, | Title: Mayor Sullivan Campaigns For Sheriff on City Time | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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