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Some beehive paintings depict fanciful versions of historical events: Ser bian warriors battling invading Turks, and even American Indians tomahawking white pioneer women on the old frontier. With the rise of world sugarcane production and the replacement of wax candles by incandescent bulbs, beekeeping has been on the decline for some time in Yugoslavia. But for the folk-art fancier, there is still plenty of honey in the old hives: genuine antique beehive paintings now bring up to $1,600 apiece. And at least one enterprising Slovenian, Vid Sedej, 28, is doing a brisk business selling his contemporary versions...
Like many other little girls, Electra Havemeyer liked to collect dolls. Her collection eventually included early American rag and wood dolls, dolls made of bisque, china, papier-mâchÊ, wax, rubber, rawhide, gutta-percha and celluloid. She also liked dollhouses, and wound up owning 43 of them, some big enough to accommodate people...
...Christie's last week. Gathered in a reverent circle for a pre-auction sampling was a handful of collectors, rich young men, food snobs and knowing oenophiles. Before them was a small, gray-green, hand-blown bottle. Carefully the dust of two centuries was wiped clean, the hard wax seal was delicately chipped from the neck, and with surgical precision the ancient cork was drawn in one piece. Then a thimbleful of bright, golden liquid was poured into a small, tulip-shaped glass. A patrician sniff, a twirl of the glass, the first sip, and then the pronouncement: "Rather...
...salacious lyrics." McLendon carefully limited his attack to that "irresponsible minority," mainly British rock singers such as the Rolling Stones. "I must take a stand," he said, "in favor of a rather updated version of the Boston Tea Party. Two centuries later, I suppose we might call it The Wax Party'-one in which we purge all the distasteful English records that deal with sex, sin and drugs...
...Lardner's own constructive suggestions are notable by their absence, other than to wax vitriolic about the "consummate self-indulgence" of running a candidate for President in 1968. Does he counsel that the left join the Ripon Society in an effort to encourage Charles Percy's nomination? Or do we simply pray, maybe to Luci J. Nugent's "little monks," that an acceptable Republican is nominated? Or, if an unacceptable nominee emerges, and if Johnson has not changed his War policy, do we all get drunk on election day? The most iniquitous form of self-indulgence is a refusal...