Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sevillana bar where I found myself that night, there was a long moment of silence before the singing of the salve, a traditional song offered at midnight every night to an imagen, a doll-like, elaborately dressed statue ensconced in glass on one side of the bar. With guitar and castanets, two men wailed the chant in praise of and prayer to the Virgin, their voices mixing in harmony and discord, an aching sound similar to flamenco song...
...winter night when Edison put his invention on public display. At his home in Menlo Park, N.J., he created the world's first showplace for electric light. Crowds of reporters and others would trudge up a hill to see lampposts, set 50 ft. apart and crowned with helmet-shaped glass bulbs, cast light over bare trees and snow-dusted fields...
When a sport is transformed overnight by the arrival of new technology--graphite tennis racquets, fiber-glass vaulting poles, high-backed ski boots--the change makes everyone queasy. But performance trumps sentiment. The sport of speed skating is at one of those pivotal junctures, with good old tradition being upended by a Dutch contraption called the clap skate. Unlike the conventional skate heel, the heel of the clap skate's boot detaches from the blade like a one-way seesaw. The skater's heel lifts off the blade, lengthening the blade's contact time on the ice, then the blade...
Over the weekend, raise a glass of the beverage of your choice to this Valentine's Day and next year's, and to that happy future age when all students can celebrate Valentine's Day in the manner that they choose, free from both schoolwork and stigma. (And while we're at it, let's hope for world peace...
...independence, of sorts, from an overbearing lover. "Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy," she sings, "but you're not going to stop me/ from having fun." In Loom DiFranco again unleashes kinetic guitar riffs. And again the theme is intrusive love: "You are the one-way glass/ that watches me/ standing at the bank...