There's Riva, waxing lyrical about poetry as she pours out the tea.
Chile's Eduardo Frei was waxing indignant at the recent refusal of two television channels to transmit the health ministry's educational publicity against AIDS.
And a nice face helps to get people out of trouble: a recent University of Oslo study found that university students awarded criminals sentences which were 20% lighter if they were told that the villains were "handsome" or "pretty .If a bit of lipstick can keep you out of jail, or waxing your mustache can land an extra 15% in earnings, then who would not pay for successful beauty treatments?
Even Google's partner, Adobe Systems, admits as much on its blog (which has not stopped it from waxing lyrical about openness in an official press release).Google's e-books come in PDF (which preserves the precise appearance of pages as they were designed for print) or EPUB (which embeds text and images in sequence and has reader software or hardware massage line breaks, pages and pictures).
Deny, deflect, detonate Reprints Related items Britain's economy: How bad is it?Sep 4th 2008 The economy: Home's where the hurt isSep 4th 2008 Bagehot: Deny, deflect, detonateSep 4th 2008Its woes are symptomatic of waxing disenchantment with London as a financial centre.
At the event his firm showed off fancy kit that it says it is developing, including solar technologies for the cars of the future.As Mr Li was waxing lyrical in the Chinese capital, something astonishing was happening in Hong Kong to Hanergy Thin Film Power Group, the listed subsidiary of his privately-held Hanergy Group.
Also popular is having non-leg body hair removed, via a so-called "back, crack and sack" waxing.
On December 30th the Washington Post quoted David Maraniss, one of the best chroniclers of the 1960s, waxing lyrical about '68: "there was a mood that anything was possible, good or bad, that life was changing by the week...it was kind of dizzying and exhilarating and tragic".For once the baby-boomers can be forgiven their nostalgia.
Waxing indignant about sexism may help rally support for Democratic candidates.
Young people should support life extension rather than waxing poetic about a choice they have never faced.JONATHAN MONSARRATCambridge, MassachusettsSIR You overlook the fact that the genetic manipulations required to lengthen life could well be accompanied by the capacity to improve intelligence and memory greatly.
