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During composition, the fragments of glass are held together by a transparent glue. When the panel is finished, it gets a coat of liquid, transparent enamel, and is baked and hardened in an oven. With sunlight or artificial light behind it, the panel is incandescent. The process, first developed by Jean Crotti. a Parisian. 30 years ago, was perfected six years ago by Roland Malherbe, another Parisian, and was launched by his father, Roger, on a major scale this month...
...bone-wet chill of winter lifted, and pale sunlight laid shadows of the leafless chestnut trees in fine tracery on the cobbles alongside the Champs Elysees. The swank Ritz cocktail lounge and the grave Plaza Atheéneée bar were shrill with the sound of American females emitting the ritual cries of greeting as they hailed each other from divan to divan. In the lush Victorian plush of Maxim's, stumpy men from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite...
...molecules wander around as individual particles, not as a gas. Wearing a space suit, a scientist eventually will enter the vacuum and experiment with such puzzling problems as the behavior of lubricants in space, and the reaction of a model satellite, minus a protective cushion of air, to sunlight. X rays and ultraviolet rays beamed in through portholes in the chamber...
Each of these books is an intriguing mixture of political terror and pastoral. The authors spent years in those plague spots of the 20th century-concentration camps. One of them was condemned to death; the other contracted tuberculosis. Yet, their writing has far more sunlight than shadow, and their message is one of charity rather than hate...
...with earthen buttresses. This was the treatment applied to Dura's synagogue. As a result, when the city finally fell about A.D. 256, the synagogue's paintings "were protected," Professor Kraeling writes, "from the ravages of the city's capture and from centuries of rain and sunlight by earth heaped about and above them, and thus preserved intact...