Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street scene taken around 1900 shows how decisively art nouveau (or its German version, Jugendstil) permeated the Mauve Decade. As the first art style since the Industrial Revolution to integrate every phase of design, its florid, free-flowing lines ornamented buildings and posters, park benches and Metro stations, Tiffany glass and Liberty silks. Yet few styles have had a shorter life. It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914. With the advent of the machined precision of the 1920s Bauhaus modernism, handcrafted art nouveau became an object of ridicule...
...have asked us to leave. I get up and leave. The column of evicted whites shuffles over to Low Library. A guy in front rams a wooden sign through the security office side doors and about 200 of us rush in. Another 150 hang around outside because the breaking glass was such a bad sound. They become the first "sundial people." Inside we rush up to Kirk's office and someone breaks the lock. I am not at all enthusiastic about this and suggest that perhaps we ought to break up all the Ming Dynasty art that's on display...
...could hear the crack of doors breaking and the smashing of glass. There were four guys who were making a lot of noise in the attic. You could also hear the cops wandering around in the halls...
Boumediene had the car stopped and gracefully accepted it. The Citroen had scarcely begun to move again when its windows were suddenly shattered by a burst of machine-gun fire. The bullets missed their target: Boumediene, Bitat and the driver took only superficial cuts from the flying glass. As the car sped away from the scene, security police gunned down and killed two of the assassins...
...fetish of rigorous testing, and take ten years or more to create a new variety of rose. The seeds of cross-pollinated blooms are culled and planted and the seedlings put down in the greenhouses-100,000 at a time. Every morning the young boss walks down the long, glass-covered alleys, pulling out some roses and placing white marker sticks next to the promising bushes...