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...expensive. Basic equipment, in addition to the glass, can be bought for less than $50. It includes: a glass cutter, a breaker (for splitting the glass), a grozier (to grind off errors), copper foil or lead (to hold the pieces together), a lathekin (a wooden tool) to flatten the foil on the glass, a soldering iron, a lubricant (usually kerosene) to make the cutter run smoothly on the glass, a flux (a solution to make the solder adhere to the foil or lead). New techniques, such as sandblasting, silk-screen painting, laminating and the use of epoxy resins, enable artists...
Give them credit. By deciding to celebrate legs or bury them, to glorify bosoms or flatten them, by floating women's bodies in capes and drapes, shawls, cloaks, trains, panels, hoods, furbelows and twiddlybits, the great fashion houses emerge, year after year, as masters of trompe l'oeil. Otherwise, monitoring these collections would be like sitting through Aida for the 42nd time. As Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, of the French oil-rich, noted before seeing the Saint Laurent collection in the laurel-bedecked ballroom of the Crillon, "We can't really expect them to keep coming up with...
Park users petitioned the city to flatten the masterpiece to make it safe. The city has been slow to respond for lack of money. So the park has been added to New York's fast-spreading urban desert...
...tropical lagoon hurled water into the skiff. The three of us were drenched. Willie, a local fisherman, grinned at the adventure. Our hulking captain frowned, grabbed a bucket and handed one to me. Brando read my fear. "Don't worry," he shouted. "When the rain hits, it will flatten the sea... the weight of the rain water." Our boat sped into the wall of rain; the sea flattened, and a few minutes later we beached the boat on the white sands of a small, S-shaped island-Brando's bird sanctuary...
...where three toy factories line up in a row Beechnut Gum, Beechnut Lifesavers, Beechnut Baby Food. This town, too, is tired and rickety. No one gets off there, and it seems like all the young people have moved out. This is beautiful country, up to Herkimer, anyway, where things flatten out and get boring near Utica and Rome. West toward Syracuse, still boring, which is hard to understand when ten and twenty miles to the south the apple orchards and Finger Lakes and Ithaca and now, a lot of condiminiums are incredibly more interesting. Past Electronics Park at Syracuse, which...