Word: waxing
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...attends the unveiling of his own likeness at the Hollywood Wax Museum, and it?s, no kidding, impossble to tell the man from his effigy. The magazine, too, has the waxy buildup of age - my age. In the Sacramento Bee, Syracuse University Professor Robert Thompson notes that Playboy ?was so successful at communicating and advocating a new lifestyle and set of values, that by 2003 it?s made itself unnecessary...
Pamela Lipson can be forgiven for sounding a bit like the announcer in that classic comedy sketch who praises a new miracle foam: Shimmer is a floor wax! And a dessert topping! Get Lipson going, and the 36-year-old co-founder and president of Imagen will gush about how her product can distinguish faces in a crowd, recommend makeup, diagnose diseases and spot imperfections on a circuit board. What Lipson's six-year-old company--a spin-off of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)--really does is make software that can find subtle similarities and differences in images...
...easy to stand back and wax ironic about The Last Samurai. But it's not all that difficult to succumb to its full-spirited romanticism either. The director, Edward Zwick, whose Glory is one of the rare, recent triumphs among grand historical tales, has obviously studied his Kurosawa. Working on the script with Marshall Herskovitz and John Logan, Zwick brings the master's concentrated fury to his depictions of hand-to-hand combat; a certain raw, muddy brutality to Cruise's training for those moments; and both epic sweep and powerful detail to the big battles. By way of contrast...
...often have to be felled to make them. Enter the Java Log. Made from used coffee grounds, it boasts a higher heat density than real wood, so it can burn hotter and last longer. When TIME compared the Java Log to a Duraflame (a log made of sawdust and wax), the Java Log ignited more quickly and produced taller, prettier flames. But does it make your house smell like a Starbucks store? Not to our nose...
...badly dated. Some of its scenes are put together wonderfully—particularly the nighttime car race—and there’s also the treat of a very early turn from Dennis Hopper. But, at its core, this is a movie where James Dean screws up his wax sculpture of a face and screams, “You’re tearing me apart!”—a movie that mistakes cheap melodrama for genuine humanity and whose worldview is as clumsy as can be. This is the way that American Beauty is going...