Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leaving," he writes, "I suddenly ran smack into one of the clear glass doors, which caused me to recoil in shame and to beat a hasty retreat...
...analogies between keeping bees and raising adolescents are interesting. Both form highly developed societies that seem an alienated parody of our own. In both we glimpse, through the looking glass, intricate social lives and blind cruelty, the tendency to swarm occasionally, the secret language of waggle dances, the cliques, the stings, the feckless love lives of the drones...
Teach your kids that Memorial Day isn't just about Kool-Aid and Wiffle Balls. Before you stoke up the grill this year, raise a glass to the people who came before you--those who fought for our country or tended the home fires--and help your family celebrate its past...
...line skating is one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S., with some 32 million devotees. And along with its growing popularity has come an array of new designs and high-tech materials, from carbon-injected plastic to glass-reinforced nylon. But I didn't really care about all that techie mumbo-jumbo. I just wanted a skate that felt fast, light and, above all, comfortable...
...without feeling the least impulse to make narrative sense. His work has the rambling, no-rules character of a dopehead's monologue. Indeed, just as Filippo Marinetti, leader of the Italian Futurists 90 years ago, called himself "the caffeine of Europe," so one of Polke's doodles, of a glass tube with powder spilling from it, is titled Polke as a Drug...