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Items in the shrine: 1) a statuary group depicting La Baker in ancient, saintly wraps, arms outstretched in benediction over the kneeling figures of seven kiddies of various races, corresponding to Josephine's seven adopted children; 2) waxen images of Josephine and the tots striding up a hill topped by a cross; 3) a figure of Josephine's husband, French Jazz Maestro Jo Bouillon, on his knees to receive the blessing of a paraffin Pope Pius...
...Empire quavered uncertainly at the change of rulers. The cerebral hemorrhage that killed Stalin-if that is what did it-assuredly left behind the man of some future year. Perhaps he was Georgy Malenkov, the suety, waxen-faced Great Russian who donned the dictator's mantle. But perhaps it was another, Nikita Khrushchev, Marshal Zhukov, or some figure still invisible to the eye of the outside world. One it was not: Lavrenty Beria, b. 1899, d. 1953 at the hands of the executioner...
Finished last June, the painting was the core of an exhibition at Manhattan's Alan Gallery last week. Levine had crammed it with hatpin-sharp caricatures, all bathed in a rich and suitably waxen light. His nervous, flickering brushwork brought every inch of the canvas to life, and created an illusion of space filled not only with figures but with air, odors and heavy thoughts. Levine's message to his fellow man was no longer propagandistic, but moral. Gangster Funeral may, like Hogarth's Gin Lane and Lautrec's Elles, live far beyond the age that...
...exception was Carmine Guarino, nicknamed "the Toad." Like Silvio, Carmine had been born to poverty, but he had found escape along another road, by burying his nose in books until his eyes dimmed and his skin grew waxen with the pallor of lamplight. Carmine's studies brought him no money, but they helped make him a schoolmaster and a politician, full of respect for the ordered and privileged past and contempt for illiterate successes such as that of Silvio...
...speaker's platform. There he grasped a table for support and then gulped a handful of pills. A hush fell over France's Chamber of Deputies as Georges Heuillard, deputy from the Seine-Inférieure, began to speak. His misshapen body and his scarred, waxen face were his honorable credentials...