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...David A. Wax '05 says...
Fred Sears is packing his white F-350 truck for his annual trek from his home in Morro Bay, Calif., to Baja, Mexico, its enormous bed filled with surfboards, wax, wet suit and sunscreen. He is as stoked as any surfer dude in his mid-20s, which by some accounting is what he is. Sears grew up in Hermosa Beach, Calif., and surfed as much as he possibly could during his teenage years. At 15, as soon as he got his driver's license, he began sweeping floors at Hobie SurfBoards, eventually working up to glassing and polishing the boards...
...star-studded Nativity scene at London wax museum MADAME TUSSAUDS elevated soccer god David Beckham to biblical status last week, exhibiting wax figures of him and his wife Victoria, a.k.a. Posh Spice, as Joseph and Mary. As pop singer Kylie Minogue hovers angelically, Hugh Grant and Samuel L. Jackson appear as shepherds while Tony Blair, George W. Bush and Prince Philip portray wise men in the display, which will stay up until January. The Vatican has called the scene blasphemous. And with Posh as the Virgin, the church may have a point...
...modern and contemporary gallery of the Fogg. Or perhaps “painting” is too strong a word. The 2001 work, Dorian Gray by the American artist Martin Kline, at first glance looks remarkably like a gigantic black mud splat. Kline used encaustic, a pasty wax-based paint, to make this work, and the result is a highly textured oval mound of pigment, roughly the shape and convexity of a shield, that juts forward close to three inches from the center of the board. The board itself is a vertically-oriented rectangle (roughtly three feet by four feet...
...slid under the door on a breath of cold air: a slim, cream envelope, a full name in script on the Crane-style paper. On the other side, a wax seal of a...frog...