["May I eat a prune?"] When the parodies are clever, a decent anthology of them constitutes a kind of through-the-looking-glass survey of English literature.
As daylight arrived on Tuesday, many business owners were left to sweep up broken glass and survey the empty shelves – or, in some cases, charred remains – of their premises.
From the moment they stroll on stage and singer Paul Banks pulls off his dark glasses to survey the sold-out crowd, Interpol radiate self-possession.
IN A lull at the battle of Solferino in 1859, the young emperor, Franz Joseph, asks for a spy-glass to survey the field.
At one point he dons a mop of hair, jumbo ears and dark glasses and surveys himself critically in a hand-mirror.
Mom removed her glasses and surveyed him, which Michael obliged by extending his hands along the rail of his intended chair and pitching forward, like an actor playing a waiter playing a son, the trinity of solicitousness.
Gay LeCleire Taylor, curator of the Museum of American Glass here at Wheaton Village, has organized "Mirrored Glass: American Silvered Glass," a historic survey of more than 100 objects that are made from glass but have the color, shine and reflection of silver.
She stood back from the wardrobe looking glass and critically surveyed herself, ashamed of how she'd let herself go, her bulk not quite obese but almost now, her pale-blue eyes — once her most telling feature — half lost in folds of flesh.
If you're confused by surveys saying you must never drink in pregnancy, surveys saying you can safely knock back the odd glass of red, and surveys saying that foetal alcohol syndrome is a fun game for all the family – wait, what – anyway.
In the United States, the Corning Museum organized an international design survey called "Glass 1959".
Is it prejudice and glass ceilings, as a survey on British business suggests today?
