After the short five-minute demo, I returned the glasses back to its owner.
Although the condition had not presented itself in my relatives until their early teens, I was wearing glasses by the age of three.
Even though I'm close to legally blind, I don't have to obscure my piercing blue eyes with glasses, because I wear contact lenses.
Without my glasses, I could read none of the signs or sub-titles, so Louis would read them out loud until I quietly asked him to stop.
In three hours I consumed: eight glasses of water, two cans of Coke Zero, a large strawberry and protein powder smoothie, and a 20 oz. bottle of Gatorade.
If you consider that Haiti is a democracy -- and all those other southern and Central American countries that are struggling with improvements -- are consolidated democracies which includes a free press, balanced security interests and which includes a financial rectitude, and viable parties -- then you look at the world through much more rose-colored glasses than I do.
But the market has been wearing rose-colored glasses, and I predict it's about to take them off soon.
But first I decided to try their glasses out for myself in a sort of test to see if they were effective for me.
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Just one hour ago, I was tossing back mondo glasses of chardonnay with boss Steve Forbes, Forbes Asia President Will Adamopoulos, colleagues Kendall Crolius and Cecilia Zeche, and Forbes columnist Ken Fisher and wife Sherri on the top floor of the Ritz Carlton Millenia in Singapore.
And I may have to take my glasses out to read my own writing.
You made a suggestive remark, I said, and you clicked glasses with him.
At our first truck stop, I stole a pair of driving glasses that had yellow-tinted lenses and large black plastic frames.
This year, like every year in distant memory, I dutifully put on the plastic throwaway glasses to watch vertiginous 3D presentations.
Earlier this year, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said, ''I have doubts whether people will be wearing glasses to play games at home.
"I ask you to take off your rosy glasses, " Sen.
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Crystal wine glasses are wonderful things, except when I have to clean them.
Afterwards I did the only possible thing: I repaired to the bar and downed a few glasses of Guinness, accompanied by members of the audience who were only too glad to toast my ignorance.
No, but the yoga, (and baby yoga with my son), the 8 glasses of water, the vitamin powder I add, the other fruits and vegetables along with relaxing walks on the beach will do it.
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She and her partner have come to meetings in Marx Brothers glasses and hats, showed a classic "I Love Lucy" clip and asked members to share funny stories.
Video has emerged of the academic wearing a studded white leather jacket and "robot" visor glasses, while rapping to the song (I've Had) The Time of My Life from the film Dirty Dancing.
As I teared up during the last few minutes of that movie I was so glad to not be wearing heavy, smudged glasses.
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"It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything, " she says.
Well, OK. I had a terrible and traumatic time in the Boy Scouts and I saw firsthand what it was like to be the subject of discrimination - if you will - in my troop, where it wasn't so much that I was Asian but just sort of like a fat kid with glasses.
"I don't know a lot of people that wear them (glasses) that don't have to, " he said.
Last October, as the sun set over the Hudson River, I approached a heavyset man in black kilt who wore thick, rimless glasses and had a long, waxed mustache.
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