Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile, 53-day world tour, but in Rome last week he was just a super-privileged tourist. He roamed among the ruins of the Colosseum and the Forum ("That's where Cicero stood"), and wife Olive shopped for Christmas presents of handkerchiefs and Venetian glass. Then Baptist Diefenbaker called at the Vatican for an audience with Pope John XXIII, chatted for 15 minutes, emerged exclaiming at the new Pope's "benign, amiable" personality "and his modest outlook." He quoted the Pope as having told him (through an interpreter): "Here I am at the end of the road...
...qualities looked for. These punching dnnners, despite the emphasis on gracious living, are often conducted with a certain flamboyant gracelessness. Several nearby country clubs, whose premises have been rented for large Club dinners, have furiously prohibited the Club from ever returning, so vast was the damage in shattered glass and splintered wood. And returning from one of these extravaganzas last year, one Club member carefully aimed a fist at a fellow member only to lay flat a punchee when his drunken blow went astray...
...they might have wanted to be Genet when they grew up; compared to him they are only dilettantes of degradation. When they write of the most deep-going taint they can imagine, they are on the outside looking eagerly in, almost with their noses pressed against the glass. Genet is on the inside, looking around. His work has none of the orchidaceous exoticism common to that of those for whom evil is a hobby. For Genet it is life itself...
...settings, Elemer Nagy installed a ring of corrugated fiber-glass flats, on each of which a colored slide is projected from the rear. There are still a few technical kinks, but this promises to be a satisfactory and economical solution. Nagy's lighting is adequate except that the night bedroom scene is far too bright...
...convertible, the Continental includes as standard equipment $2,044 worth of accessories and usually optional equipment. These range from a $25 chrome curb-guard molding, up through electric doorlocks ($59.15 for four doors) to dual radios ($152.70 apiece) and dual air conditioners ($440 apiece). When the retractable curved-glass partition between the front and back seats is up, passengers and chauffeur can listen to different radio programs in individually adjusted air conditioning. Like the original model T, the limousine comes in just one color, black...