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...even though he may appear to be smiling." Composed in 1927, his Quartet No. 3 is crammed with rhythmic and harmonic search, and a few groans and smiles too. With this excellent recording, made by the composer's son Peter, 25, all six Bartok quartets are now on wax. Performance: good...
...with blood and bewilderment.The reform-school graduate who used to thrill Manhattan crowds with his ferocious, windmill technique was losing his first major fight in New York after a three-year exile. "You've got to knock him out," warned his manager, while he smeared carpenter's wax on a cut above Rocky's left eye. Growled Graziano, impatiently: "I still got one round...
...Wax & Wallpaper. After years of patching and making-do, the little church had finally had a major overhauling. As he arrived to lead the rededication service, the Rev. Samuel W. Robinson, superintendent of the 110 churches in the Methodists' Vmcennes District, could hardly believe his eyes. Sunlight gleamed on freshly waxed pews and on baskets of asters, zinnias and chrysanthemums. There were new cream-colored walls, a sturdy upright piano, and new runners on the aisles. Crisp new hymnals filled the racks...
...Mead fell from fashion after the Reformation cut down the use of beeswax for church candles; apiarists, no longer able to sell their byproduct wax to the chandlers, found it unprofitable to make honey just for the mead makers...
...accessories man, and a background man like myself." For the beavers, they went to central Michigan, stayed two weeks. Wilson made on-the-spot paintings and supplemented them with color photos. The accessories man collected shrubs and stumps for the foreground, things he could later reproduce in paper, wax and cellulose acetate...