Word: waxings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes. It also requires him to steep himself in Scream scholarship. To ensure that con men would not try to fool him with a counterfeit version, he even memorized the pattern of wax droplets left on the work when Munch blew out a candle one night...
...White House finds itself in a familiar place: Stick to the script, stay on message, wax confident that things will look up. It worked during the 2004 campaign. "The one thing that's real consistent about this president is that he doesn't spook," says Mark McKinnon who made Bush's presidential campaign ads. "We always knew this would be a tough fight." Indeed, many in the White House see a potential victory in defeat. Even if the Social Security plan doesn't pass, they predict Bush will have been seen as having taken on the tough issues and Americans...
...bring our own fan from home [to make the wax dry faster] because they don’t supply us with that much equipment,” he says. “Some people just walk in during the waxing and it’s upsetting because you have to redo the entire thing...
...displays that touch Kawamoto most deeply are those of a middle-school uniform, much like his own, the jacket torn with one sleeve missing; and of wax models of victims walking as if stunned or asleep, their arms held out in front of them. Their skin hangs loose on their bones, like ill-fitting clothing. Their real clothes are rags. In the display case they stand blank-eyed against a backdrop of a wasteland of ashes and a fire-streaked sky. "It is the way people really looked," Kawamoto says. "They did not seem to walk voluntarily; they appeared...
...just listen to Steffan Wilson, the rookie phenom, wax poetic about Wheeler’s sense of humor...