...Andrew Wachtel Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 History in a Glass Andrew Wachtel In the brilliant sunshine of a fall morning in Istria, I swirl the pale pink wine. As I bring it to my nose, I catch the unmistakable...

... technologies within postmodern architectures. This essay helps establish the origins of the megachurch by tracing the rise of the Crystal Cathedral. The Crystal Cathedral brought automobiles and drive-in cinema (1955–61), then glass, steel, and television (1962–70), and finally architectural postmodernism...

... recently returned to Moscow, I stepped out of Kiev Station to find myself stunned by the sight of an enormous glass and steel object. Whatever it was, this had definitely not been there the year before. A postmodern extravaganza of angled shapes in glass and painted steel, it seemed to have taken its...

... a prolonged advertisement on one of the TV channels. Passersby on the streets somewhere were being shown sun-glasses, costing $19.99 apiece, wearing which, it was said, enables one to see behind one's head (and ahead too, I guess): The people encountered were asked to wear the sun-glasses and give...

... buildings, the architects maintained, would be in a harmonious relationship with the natural environment. The idea was to use long-span glass canopies supported by slender columns to envelope workplaces that could be flexibly rearranged in accordance with Google's unknown future needs. Plus, the glass...

... and the sight of it is breathtaking. You have the multistory glass walls, the spinning elevators, you walk down four stories deep into the theater itself, and they open today's presentation with the voice of Steve Jobs. 1 figure 1. Journalist Emily Chang reporting from Apple Park...

... Spring 1992 140 Wallpeckers chisel sentiment and rock The street, the alley flower Beyond the gate, no triple witching hour Glass catches grains from any pock. Cased presentation pieces, segments large And small, authentic ornamental...

... and French popular music with subtitles translated into absurdity. Further along the route, visitors came across a shopping arcade, eerily aban- doned and completely constructed of glass display windows and glass corridors. Artist Christl Lidl worked...

... Karaoke—Ein Heimatabend in der Fremde (2000) offered 1960s German and French popular music with subtitles translated into absurdity. Further along the route, visitors came across a shopping arcade, eerily aban- doned and completely constructed of glass...

... to be disgusted. We become anxious to know how far our appearance deserves either their blame or approba- tion. We examine our persons limb by limb, and, by placing ourselves before a looking-glass or by some such expedient, endeavour as much...

... keen on the materiality of bourgeois life returned triumphant with gleaming sets of Duralex glass dishes. Those who preferred cultural capital went to Perpignan to see erotic films and returned in groups in tiny SEAT cars loaded down...

... of the central plateau of Brazil was the initial signature of an inaugural history that projected itself into the new architectural shapes. Confronted by regional discrepancies, violent social inequality, and incongruous patterns of premod- ernization and modernization, the capital city of glass and concrete...

..., off the public paths, and perform a ritual burial of "secrets" in the ground. The "secret" would be a piece of colored glass found in the trash that would cover up an old stamp, a piece of the glittering foil wrapping of chocolates...

... kept the Murid community on the margins of urban civility. In the city, Murids appropriated glass painting, the religious lithography introduced by the Lebanese, to narrate their own stories, alongside and/or against this colonial civility.31...

... that music was the most important of the arts.12 But he always maintained that words and music “could be combined to produce concen- nearly 400–page “Opera and Drama” constitutes the entirety of volume 2. Frank W. Glass sum- marizes its main...

... glasses emblazoned with the corporate FIAC logo (Wokmeni) and a stylized image of the I. M. Pei Nouveau Louvre pyramid, known to art and Dan Brown aficionados worldwide (L Figure 3 offers a series of overview shots: images of stacked-­bag columns, building blocks in the maze that occupies...

...-vegetable or fresh-pepper relishes in the glass case, I remembered that this was absolutely my first time in Central America, my first time in the land laid waste by Cort6s and his successors. The girls were Chinese-looking, but they were not Chinese. That half familiarity made them very strange...

... and Publicity: Bentham's Quest for Transparency.” Public Culture 6 ( 3 ): 547 -575. Glass , James M. 1989 . Private Terror / Public Life: Psychosis and the Politics of Community . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. Grassian , Stuart . 1983 . “Psychopathological Effects of Solitary...

... and plates gleamed a brilliant blue. Salt air and wind gradually eroded the paint and stained everything with rust. Underneath the base, in the basement of the monument was once a sleek glass doorway. Only its white frame remains. More concrete steps lead down to a foyer- empty but for a scum...

... of minimalism, of nothingness. This pure, white space may consist of some colored lights, some Japanese-style furniture, or objects incorporating transparent glass.1 Whereas the tableaux above are workshops, this is a refuge. The inhabitant...