Reagan then made his speech at the Brandenburg Gate at 2 00 pm, in front of two panes of bulletproof glass protecting him from potential snipers in East Berlin.
For example, there are hanging panes of bulletproof glass, spattered with icons of feminity, ineffectual attempts to shatter the glass ceiling—an injustice more evident on the web.
Inside the lobby, the concierge sits behind a pane of bulletproof glass.
It was Obama's first trip to Vietnam, but he encountered this pageant mostly through a five-inch pane of bulletproof glass.
"The edge of the mystery" is how Norman Mailer described John Kennedy in 1960, and it may be an apt way to look at Obama too, as he rides up Pennsylvania Avenue obscured by a pane of bulletproof glass.
On the other side of the thick pane of bulletproof glass is Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the worst slaughter to blight Europe since the Third Reich, thereafter the world's most wanted fugitive – and now on trial in The Hague.
He's cheerful and utterly uncynical, which is surprising given that most of his trade takes place behind a thick pane of bulletproof glass.
After a formal check-in process we were sitting across a pane of bulletproof glass from a sharply dressed FBI agent, relating our story and outlining the evidence we'd assembled showing we'd been beaten by cops and that the police were lying to cover for our attackers.
The scene in the courtroom today -- sealed off from spectators by huge panes of sound- and bulletproof glass -- gave exactly the impression of an international effort that the tribunal wants to convey: translations in four different languages buzzed in headsets, in proceedings overseen by the judges, Richard May of Britain, Patrick Robinson of Jamaica and O-Gon Kwon of South Korea.
The windows look like the typical two-pane variety, and they are, except for a transparent bulletproof polymer, which at the time was cutting edge.
