Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EVERYWHERE HE LOOKED, the artist found light and color flooding into his surroundings--the only hard part was getting the luminescence on canvas. To that end, Porter used a nearly fluorescent palette of pastel-lime pinks, greens and blues, as well as a special wax-based matte surface in order to capture the illumination he desired. He then explored every facet of interior design and its relationship to the outdoors, his painting always done with an impeccable air of cleanliness and calm spaciousness evident, for example, in the autumn leaves, long shadows and golden afternoon sun of October Interior...
...freeway exit past Disneyland, and on the same tourist-mecca level as the Hollywood Wax Museum and Knott's Berry Farm, lies "Religionland." Or so detractors of Television Evangelist Robert Schuller, 56, have dubbed his $18 million headquarters. 'For the past two years, the "Crystal Cathedral" has been offering such secular, profit-making fare as weight-reduction classes and counseling programs, plus concerts by Lawrence Welk and Victor Borge. State tax authorities would now like to pass their collection plate. "They even had a Ticketron there," says a local tax investigator. "The first time...
Burle hopes to be at full strength for the Beanpot. "It's the season in itself. It's the bragging rights to Boston. I'd like to go for the whole ball of wax this year, because we really have the talent," he says...
Baker's uncertainty was not sudden, but was apparent as long ago as 1978. "Howard likes to wax nostalgic about the idea of the citizen-legislator," says Senator Lugar, referring to Baker's vision of responsible representatives in constant touch with the grass roots, who would do their duty and then step aside. Less romantically, Baker, a rich man when he came to the Senate, wants to replenish his personal coffers. His wife of 31 years, Joy, was successfully operated on last year for lung cancer. A pragmatic, contradictory, intensely private man, who once promised...
Drawing on materials at hand, doll-makers of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries fashioned humble toys from wood scraps, nuts, cornhusks, leather, even wishbones and wax. Wendy Lavitt has culled choice examples in American Folk Dolls (Knopf; 133 pages; $14.95 paperback) from museum and private collections, including her own. Among the finds: a simple cloth child in a beautifully detailed gown, the product of someone's exquisite needlework; an Indian doll caught between two cultures, dressed in buckskin, but with a nun's veil; Eskimos in sealskin, their curved ivory faces true to tribal doll convention...