Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face, manages to draw a beer while glancing back over his shoulder at the light. "Who do ya like?" he says in a shrill voice to no one in particular and then turns back to the tap at precisely the moment that the beer is about to overflow the glass...
Steven Holl's precise, highly wrought store and apartment interiors are austere and dreamy, a combination of effects not regularly encountered outside of Japan. The attention to surface detail is almost excessive. Glass panes are sandblasted and etched with miniature geometric murals. When Holl has room to move around (for example, in his designs for a retail and residential building, as yet unbuilt, at Florida's Seaside), his work seems sublime rather than precious or cramped...
...Globe newspaper she has managed the improbable. With a long, gorgeous, barrel-vaulted main hall in particular, Lohan has again made industrial modernism beautiful -- and without a bit of frippery. W.G. Clark and Charles Menefee have accomplished their own unlikely feat with the cool, cool Middleton Inn: here are glass houses that delight as glass houses have not delighted in a generation. Overlooking a South Carolina river, the inn boasts rooms that are perfect modernist compositions: light, airy, lively, serene. Clark and Menefee's work, like most of the best work by younger Americans today, is all about restraint...
...street musicians performed on everything from steel guitars to glass harmonicas, guests sampled a vegetarian buffet dinner with an optional price...
...green-paneled, glass and steel home of the Office of Information Technology is as incongruous a place as any for the Happy Hacker to begin his search for term-paper heaven. But that's the campus mecca where papers written on computers get printed out in a high-quality, professional-looking style...