Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under Glass Cases...
...African-influenced chant. Director Lloyd Richards needs to tinker with the ending, a sort of exorcism in which a sudden shift from farce to horror does not quite work. But already the musical instrument of the title is the most potent symbol in American drama since Laura Wingfield's glass menagerie...
...acted in part because Congress failed last year to pass legislation that would reform the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which erected walls between the banking and securities businesses. The landmark statute is widely viewed as outdated, but many legislators, including Texas Democrat Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, contend that the Fed has wrongly usurped congressional powers to oversee the banking industry...
...contrast to the gaudy old Garnier, the 2,700-seat Bastille opera is designed to be austerely functional -- a bleak concrete, stainless-steel and glass oval, with gray-black granite floors and walls and five revolving stages for fast changes of scene. "The whole idea of this opera house is that it is very sober," according to architect Carlos Ott, 42. "You don't have decoration inside the hall. The decor is on the stage...
...took one more sweeping look around the room where he had exercised the globe's greatest power so long and so exuberantly, slowly squared his shoulders and walked out to the sun-streaked colonnade that links the office with the mansion. White House staff members crowded against the glass doors and windows, some of them openly weeping...