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...bowls and vases and the early lamps chronicled by Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha in Glass by Galle (Abrams; 223 pages; $40) were often adorned with images of flowers, insects, birds, drawn from Galle's extensive nature studies, or abstractly patterned by pieces of colored glass. Jade, amber, even emeralds and sapphires were reproduced by adding metallic oxides and salts to molten glass. The designer went on to produce other decorative objects, including inlaid furniture, but Galle's reputation rests on glass works that were revolutionary in his time and still retain their ability to astonish...
...Madras. It is a marvel of detached observation. In straightforwardness and dignity, unblemished by caricature, the heads of the animal's two Indian handlers rank with Rubens' famous studies of an African black. The evocation of substance, from the hair of the cheetah-done in a rippling amber pelt of short directional strokes interspersed with broader whiskery featherings-to the play of light on the white turbans and dhotis, is breathtaking...
Like most beer ads, the TV commercial for Texas Select foams over with machismo. The blurb, aired in Houston and Dallas, portrays a group of poker-playing buddies whooping it up while holding aloft glasses filled with an amber beverage. Then comes the kick or, rather, the lack of one. Texas Select is virtually alcohol free. Claims the card-party host: "The guys couldn't tell the difference...
...week ago, had decided to go along with the four-point approach. As one Arab diplomat in Damascus noted, "Nothing happens in Syria without the man [Assad] saying so. If he says green, it's go. If he says red, it's stop. There are no amber lights in Syria...
...leaves the reader conscious at every moment of a high skill and intelligence - indeed, perhaps too conscious. Individual scenes are admirable, as when Arnie's hapless rival Lex, visiting the sanctum of Arnie's island, seeks an epiphany in a swarm of butterflies ("a world of translucent amber, the dazzle of deep dimension, pulsing...