Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, La Farge convinced James that he should write rather than paint, then used his brother, Philosopher William, as the model for St. John in an uncompleted altarpiece. La Farge also succeeded in smuggling a touch of the Renaissance back to the U.S., revived the art of stained glass, and visited Tahiti with sketchbook in hand before Gauguin got there. Unlike many of his well-educated countrymen, such as his contemporary Whistler, who became expatriates, La Farge put his talents to embellishing the barren American cultural scene...
...emphasize their point, the directors use the camera as the eyes of Tono Britko. We view the world through a rum glass as Britko dances in a drunken stupor and we awake with him the next morning to find the camera turned upside down. Soon we become vicarious inhabitants of his village. We walk next to him along the main street as he tips his hat to friends and we cringe with him when a troop of Nazi soldiers passes...
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...Piatagorsky is wrong. Sergei Rachmaninoff [May 13] did take students. One of them was the well-known pianist, Ruth Slenczynska, who describes her lessons with Rachmaninoff in her book Forbidden Childhood. As a teacher, he was apparently a painstaking technician who, after lessons, served his student tea in a glass...
Because G.M. is so pervasive in the U.S. economy, its cutbacks are felt throughout the country. The auto industry uses 22% of the nation's steel, 75% of its plate glass, 62% of its rubber-and G.M. is more than half of the auto industry, accounting for 51% of all sales. Last year, when it marketed a record 4,663,017 cars in the U.S. as well as 1,581,651 cars and trucks abroad, G.M.'s $21 billion volume accounted for more than 2% of the gross national product. Its federal tax payments came to $1.74 billion...