Up a set of glass-bottom stairs is a glass landing that serves as Mr. Agostini's office.
Facing the building, she saw windows shattering, then looked down at her feet to see glass landing around her.
In another, he and his cousin and business partner (Michael Imperioli, only lightly removed from his role as Christopher on "The Sopranos") tussle inside their flimsy recording booth and Alex crashes through it in a shower of broken glass, landing on the concrete floor.
Will we now be led back to the looking-glass land of birtherism, and theories of a President carrying out a stealth mission he learned in a madrassa?
WASHINGTON — From hundreds of diplomatic cables, Afghanistan emerges as a looking-glass land where bribery, extortion and embezzlement are the norm and the honest official is a distinct outlier.
Set in a through-the-looking-glass land with elements of Victorian England, contemporary Manhattan and a garden petting zoo, the play is populated by two-legged hyperbolic idiosyncrasies rather than people.
This arms race has been called the Red Queen hypothesis after the Alice in Wonderland character who told Alice that in looking-glass land, she would have to run as fast as she could just to stay in the same place.
The current show, Quidam, is about a girl who goes down the rabbit hole, through the looking glass and lands up in a Magritte painting.
No Oscar season would feel complete without its Cinderella, and this year the glass slipper lands on the bare foot of "Slumdog Millionaire," a movie about a desperately poor young man who finds the answers for the India version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" in his tortured past and present.
Released on July 12 , 1986by Random House, Through a Glass Darkly landed on The New York Times Best Seller list.
