Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...within the memory of a computer, that human operators can turn, twist and reshape all they want. When special goggles, bodysuits and gloves are used to display and manipulate the images, those microcosms can become so real that viewers feel they have stepped through a kind of electronic looking glass into a completely artificial, computer- generated world...
...Philadelphia forward Charles Barkley--the Round Mound of Rebound, the Guru of the Glass--and tonight in the first round of the NBA playoffs, Lord Charles will plant his large frame under the basket, dominate the paint and lead the 76ers to victory over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden...
...delight. The other seven: "Absence of all care and worry, an unembarrassed mind, natural gaiety of the spirit, good nourishment, wealth, the variety of the faces of women and the variety of their complexions." And maybe just once in a while it wouldn't hurt to have a nice glass of camel's milk mixed with honey...
...most ballyhooed work, Buckley's adaptation of his espionage novel Stained Glass, proved stagnant and pointless. Deficiencies that can be overlooked on the page -- cardboard characters, what-if plots about events from decades ago, smugness about how easy it is to distinguish between right and wrong -- are wearisome on the stage. Buckley's dialogue was, if not sesquipedalian, then not serendipitous either. The cumbersome production resulted in set changes longer than the scenes, although the scenes were not necessarily any more interesting...
...ancient Greeks, it was a mysterious, potent force that inspired the Dionysian rites and their artistic offspring, Attic drama. To Christians, it represents the blood of their Saviour. To the secular connoisseur, it is the most profound of liquids -- at its finest, poetry in a glass...