Word: waxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passengers on last week's fatal flight was Author Judith Wax, 47, who was flying with her husband Sheldon Wax, 51, managing editor of Playboy magazine. In her last book, Starting in the Middle, she wrote lightly and amusingly about incidents in her life. In retrospect, one of her lines acquired new meaning. "When the job required travel," she wrote, "I developed such a fear of airplanes my head trembled from takeoff to landing...
...schoolboy, Francis Vincent has been cast as the innocent child in "The Emperor and His Clothes," he would sooner have made unflattering remarks about the emperor's genitals than about his lack of apparel. Always fond of extended "comedy show" tunes, Zappa has recorded rock's kinkiest scenarios on wax with nary a batting of his beady eyes. (Those of unsalvageable purient interest may refer to the Live at the Fillmore East "white album," or the equally memorable Overnight Sensation classic, "Dinah-Moe-Humm.") Believe it or not, parts of Yerbouti shock the sensibilities as never before. As for romance...
Marina mariners wax lyrical over the psychological and physical rewards of being their own skippers. Mrs. Johnston, 48, has lived for more than twelve years on her wooden 55-ft. sailboat, Silhouette. "I love the water," she says. "I love to get up in the morning and see the seagulls. It's a lovely sensation being rocked to sleep. It's like a continuous camping-out trip...
Some of the minimal work in the Biennial, like Brice Marden's wax-encaustic panels, is beautifully made, but the craftsmanship is placed at the service of no discernible idea; it is art's answer to the well-made play, a kind of systematic decor-though (mercifully perhaps) with out the metaphysical pretensions of its ancestor, Barnett Newman's work. More likable are the folded tracing-paper drawings by Dorothea Rockburne, with their spare geometry of arc and line appearing through superimposed translucencies of paper−the product, if not of passionate invention, at least of rigorously...
...market opening up on the mainland, it may be years before the Chinese can afford to pay for all they want. Among other things, Chinese oil reserves, on which Peking heavily counts to earn cash, are afflicted by a number of serious technical problems including a high wax content and great difficulty in extraction owing to geological structure...