Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, heard an eminent British neurosurgeon, Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, denounce the practice of having medical students sit in the gallery watching operation after operation. "A shocking waste of time," said Sir Geoffrey. "They would be much better employed in the wards." Besides, said Sir Geoffrey, too many surgeons wax theatrical before a student audience, "give tongue only to reprimands or agonized cries about the incompetence of their assistants . . . This is often good entertainment, [but it is] a bad example to their juniors who may come to believe that bluster and theatrical imbecilities are the sign of a good surgeon...
...beginning to think that 3-D was less a shot in the arm than a bump on the head: box-office returns on the latest 3-D films are showing a steady decline from the top grosses of such early novelty hits as Bwana Devil and The House of Wax. Because many theater owners believe the profit on 3-D pictures is not yet enough to pay off the added cost of enlarged projection booths, extra machines and extra operators, only 2,100 of the nation's 21,500 theaters are equipped to show...
...years, Frank Lloyd Wright, the grand, infuriating and tireless old nautilus of U.S. architecture, has built ever more amazing mansions, put ever vaster domes over such projects as a mortuary in San Francisco, a chapel for Florida Southern College, a laboratory tower for Johnson's Wax. When the Guggenheim Foundation asked him in 1945 to build an art museum for Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue, he designed what might be taken as a monument to himself. It would be shaped, he said, "like the chambered nautilus." The picture gallery would consist of a quarter-mile ramp, slowly rising...
...tribesmen came a deluge of uninvited guests: more than 3,000 gawking whites from nearby East London (pop. 76,000) arrived in a raucous parade of cars, buses and lorries. They elbowed their way into the kraal, streamed through Chief Sandile's house as though it were a wax museum. When the bride, covered from head to foot in a ritual green blanket, approached the Royal Kraal, the whites charged toward her, blocking the entrance. The bridegroom, waiting anxiously for a first look at the bride he had never seen, could see only the shouting throng of the uninvited...
...those who have sat enthralled with Lehrer's personal appearances, the record will serve as a pleasant reminder of past joys. And his new fans find restraint hard to maintain, because Lehrer is as good on wax as in the flesh. As does his lovable Old Dope Peddler, he continues, "spreading joy wherever he goes...