Word: plate-glass
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...lined up in the early-morning hours hoping to get first crack at the baccarat, poker and blackjack tables. By the time the casino was opened to the public at 3 p.m., more than 15,000 had gathered in a pulsating scrum, ready to rush the lobby. Three sturdy plate-glass doors were ripped from their hinges and several little old ladies were nearly trampled in the ensuing stampede before police restored order by forcing stragglers back to the main street. As night fell, hundreds who failed to get in during the first wave disconsolately waited outside behind police barricades...
...feel as manically neighborly as a Sesame Street extra. “Hello!” you want to cry to children being trundled past in strollers. Thoughtful merchandisers have adjusted window displays to your eye level; would-be Byrons nursing cups of coffee behind coffee shops’ plate-glass windows brood up at you. You hear bizarre, beautiful snatches of conversation. You receive unsolicited advice intended for other people. Sometimes you exchange smiles with strangers. If you take a walk now, you can find signs spring is coming: snowdrops, the firm green tips of daffodils poking through...
...almost a riot situation,” Nesson says of the moment when the revolution that would come to consume his time and energy broke out. “I like to think of it in terms of plate-glass windows of record stores smashing and the whole inventory wide open...
...does not so much sit on its street corner as continuously arrive there. On its longer side, it forms sweeping irregular stacks of white and black concrete and darkened glass, all of them resting on a clear-glass lobby. On its narrow end, it shoots those same interlocking volumes out in irregular square planes. Down below, fiber-optic light strips embedded in the pavement glide under the lobby's plate-glass wall and then across the ground floor in diagonals--lines of force that announce the edgy nerve paths of the place you're about to enter...
...that Ducasse opened in the city's posh eighth arrondissement. Be - which presents itself as "the very first bakery-grocery store" - is a corner shop reimagined by a fashion magazine. Wicker baskets behind the counter are piled with 18 different types of handmade bread. The oak shelves lining its plate-glass windows are crammed with groceries no upscale Parisian kitchen can be without, from squid ink to balsamic vinegar. "Our customers know that every product has been personally chosen and tested by Alain Ducasse," explains Agnès Defontaine, who was responsible for putting Ducasse's concept in place...