Word: panese
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The summer smells of popcorn and gasoline swept across Manhattan's hectic heartland-Times Square. Behind the cool glass panes of the Pepsi-Cola United Nations Center, an underpublicized celebrity was speaking on international friendship. It was Lidiya Gromyko, the diplomat's wife, appearing on the 21st of...
Has there been a sculptor's plague in the U.S., or have the panes of their souls been darkened by greed and isms? Are there no leftists left among them or are all the southpaw-modelers concentrating on "Fragrances" and "Rhythms" in stone?
"I am so impressed by your window panes here," she exclaimed. "There are none left in our university; we have boarded the windows up because the glass is all broken."
From Soviet ex-Minister to Sweden Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontay, 74 (also known as the Madame Pompadour of the Russian Revolution), came a bit of rhapsodic reminiscence: "I remember the room in Smolny where the Central Committee met. The windows looked out on to the Neva, and a strong wind from...
"That was the period when, whether you liked it or not, you came into your full inheritance. . . . You were all alone and rather proud of it. . . . There was . . . the big raid of December 29th, when the City burned . . . and as I walked home at 7 in the morning, the windows...