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Word: glassing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Through the Looking-Glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...first finished in 1666, burned during the Paris Commune of 1871 and left largely unoccupied since its restoration was completed in 1905. When Decorator Jacques Grange first inspected the premises in 1982, he found himself inside a glorious attic in which hundreds of pigeons flew free under a glass rooftop supported by a metal framework. Grange and Architect Daniel Kahane kept practically everything but the birds. They added oak for the floors, stone for stairs and gallery walls, spending nearly $6 million to achieve an easy, inviting elegance. It is an ambiance that contains the clothes nicely without competing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: An Elegant Legacy Comes Alive | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...window display I witnessed at the Vision House in Harvard Square last night. There are trash cans in the window and stuffed in one trash can is a woman's body with only her upturned legs visible. Hanging from her high heeled shoe is a pair of eye glass frames. I can't for the life of me see any connection between the inferred violence and eye glasses. After seeing someone raped, murdered, or mutilated and stuffed in a trash can, why would I want to buy eye glasses!? I spoke with the manager of the store who said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Our Readers | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

...rest of the story is known by all New England sports fans, and anybody who raises a glass with them. Bucky Dent--that little New Yorker Bucky Dent, for chrissakes!--dinked a home run over the Green Monster to win the playoff game for the Yankees...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha jr., | Title: Patriots' Pathos | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

...dive to the sidewalk as the plate glass windows of One Potato, Two Potato shatter into a thousand tiny bits...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: The Theatricals' Hasty Choice | 1/30/1986 | See Source »

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