Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party in a bravely decorated basement apartment off Mount Auburn St., a former junior faculty member at Harvard clutches the obligatory glass of white wine and holds forth with some passion on the subject of how poorly Harvard treats his class...
Rooftop panels or collectors made of glass and copper pipe. Liquids in the pipes absorb the sun's heat, and are then circulated to a storage tank that feeds heat to household living areas and water supplies...
...glass of wine, a siesta-and a rare day off from the easel. Joan Miró decided to take it easy on his 85th birthday. "The older I get, the more I do," he said. Laboring seven hours a day in his hilltop studio on the Spanish island of Majorca, he finishes one or two works a week and has also completed a tapestry for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. An especially exciting prospect is an upcoming retrospective exhibition in Madrid, to be opened by King Juan Carlos. It will mean that after 40 years of Franco...
...assume that on its tour of Boston, Chicago, Dallas and New York City in 1978-79, that figure will be exceeded. The exhibition, which opened last week at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, includes more than 300 objects, from encaustic wall paintings to bronze figures, pots and glass, on loan from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and the Pompeii Antiquarium. There are even two plaster corpses, dog and man, eerie and Segal-like in their necrotic beauty. Short of a trip to Pompeii, the show gives the best view of life in this fat province of the ancient...
...dailies, and San Diegans could do worse for a new newspaper. But Chandler's urge to spread enlightenment is hardly the sole motive for marching southward. Times circulation dropped below the 1 million level last year, triggering alarms all over the block-long, dark brown granite and smoked-glass building where the $1.1 billion Times Mirror empire is headquartered. What is more, much of the paper's largely white, middle-class readership is apparently leaving town. The Los Angeles community development department calculates that the city's "Anglo" population has dropped from 81% of the total...