Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOHNSON'S WAX PAVILION is basically a 600-seat theater in a disklike gondola suspended 24 ft. off the ground from six vaulting columns. The theater will be reached by a ramp...
Awaiting his turn in the starting pen, Engan spends half an hour putting a glassy wax surface on his skis. Then he is on his way, whistling down the slide, tucking his body into a ball to get more speed. Soaring high above the hill, arms pressed tightly along his sides, body tilted forward until his nose is inches from the tips of his skis, Engan has perfect balance. "Until I touch down," he says. "I could just as well close my eyes...
...basic procedure of etching is to coat a copper plate with wax, draw on it with a needle that exposes the metal, and immerse the plate in acid, which eats away the exposed area. After removing the wax, the artist prints the plate by coating it with ink. wiping the ink from the surface, and pressing the plate against paper that draws ink out of the etched depressions by a blotting action...
Hayter experimented with substitutes for the wax. He tried using on a single plate various substances with different degrees of resistance to the acid. The acid, biting into the metal faster in one spot, more slowly in another, could produce complex and subtle effects not possible before. As the artist worked, the acid working on the copper would produce new images that as he observed them would excite his imagination...
...more sardonic, suggests the word might first have been pronounced when McNamara predicted that a Soviet destroyer would "heave in sight." But ExComm's presiding officer, called "Himself," corrects him with "The word is hove." Otherwise, Krock turns ExComm into MadAv. "Let's melt this ball of wax and move the hardware from the shelf," suggests Krock's McNamara. "Suppose I start batting out the fungoes." Sorenson-or somebody identified as "T. S-"-says, "You mean toss it in the well and see the kind of splash it makes; follow it into the high grass...