Word: waxing
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...enough to make one wonderfully aware that they were built for enjoyment more than utility. The end tables and lamps are beautifully crafted and of impeccable quality. Such care has been taken with the ambiance of this room that the ornate fake candelabras on the wall have fake plastic wax running down the fake paper candles...
...DIED. ANDRE DE TOTH, believed to be 89 or 90, macho, eye-patch-wearing Oscar-nominated director best known for the gory horror flick House of Wax (1953), one of the most memorable 3-D movies of the 1950s; in California. Admired and emulated by young directors from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino, de Toth once described himself as a "Hungarian-born, one-eyed American cowboy from Texas...
Although accustomed to the outdoors, the statue finds protection from the natural elements in an outer coating of paraffin wax. According to Manager of Administrative Operations Zachary M. Gingo ’98, the wax makes the statue easy to clean. “In most instances we can wipe off the substance (shaving cream, soap, food debris, etc.) with a rag,” he writes in an e-mail. “For urine, we wash the statue (as well as the area around the base) with a hose.” John Harvard gets attacked about once...
...More time is devoted to his role than Norton’s, surely, but it’s intensely painful seeing Taymor attempting to inflate his appearance by forcing us to watch Trotsky and Kahlo staring at a beautiful Mexican vista, all while listening to Trotsky wax corny Hollywood philosophical, with uplifting music ready to murmur...
...example, one of the jobs criminal investigators routinely perform is testing for gunpowder on suspects' hands. In the past, this was a surprisingly low-tech chore, involving melting a glob of paraffin in a pot and painting it onto the fingers and hands. The wax was then peeled off and treated with chemicals that react to gunpowder traces. If the chemicals turned up positive, you had your shooter--unless, of course, the chemicals were reacting with urine, bleach or fertilizer, which had a nasty habit of yielding identical results...