Matisse would surely have appreciated the palette displayed under the glass counter of the Fenocchio ice-cream shop in the old town.

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The door was made partly of glass, and he could see into the shop.

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"Those of us who grew up before Margaret Thatcher was even in Downing Street can sometimes fail to appreciate the thickness of the glass ceiling she broke through - from a grocer's shop in Grantham to the highest office in the land, " he said.

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Brilliant corals were arranged in glass-fronted cabinets, in the manner of an apothecary shop.

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The costume galleries have long suffered from cramped quarters and often lifeless installations behind glass panes, which make the garments look more like clothes in a shop window than works of art.

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Beyond the pool and the ocean views, there is a bunker, a trauma hospital and something akin to Mad Max's version of an auto body shop, where specialized gear heads will fix "the ballistic glass on your armored vehicle, " as Mr. Stock puts it.

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He shows us a recycling shop, like the one where he worked, where newspaper and glass bottles turn into money.

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He set up pyramids of plates to crash when people passed them, and rigged a mirror in a hat shop so that, when each matron posed simperingly before it, the glass cracked from side to side.

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The imposing, glass-fronted building situated on the prominent Mahatma Gandhi Road resembles a posh international store rather than a traditional jewelry shop.

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