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  2. Glasses (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The older, wiser woman with thick spectacles and a heart of gold, was played by Patricia Routledge (later famous for her role as "Hyacinth Bucket" in the popular comedy series "Keeping Up Appearances". The "surgical glasses" shown in the dramatisation are extremely thick, and marked by a "bar" across the centre. They are referred to as "goggles".

  3. Horn-rimmed glasses - Wikipedia

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    Horn-rimmed glasses are a type of eyeglasses. Originally made out of either horn or tortoise shell, for most of their history they have actually been constructed out of thick plastics designed to imitate those materials. They are characterized by their bold appearance on the wearer's face, in contrast to metal frames, which appear less pronounced.

  4. Jacqueline and Joyce Robbins - Wikipedia

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    They had one older brother and one younger sister. Their father practiced medicine as a doctor in Alberta while their mother was a pharmacist. Of Jewish descent, their father changed his name from Rabinovitz to Robbins when emigrating to Canada from Huși, Vaslui [2] in Romania. The sisters were raised in Calgary, Alberta. [3]

  5. Time Enough at Last - Wikipedia

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    In a 2022 expansion for the game Fallout 76 entitled “the Pitt”, players may come across a small room featuring a pair of glasses, a gun, and a note called “Time Enough at Last”, containing lines of dialogue from the character of Bemis. In an episode of Modern Family, Jay's glasses are sat on by Luke, breaking them.

  6. The Spectacles (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The irony is that the narrator does not have a "first sight" of the woman he falls in love with, due to his lack of spectacles. Additionally, the story is based around vanity . The narrator changes his name, with "much repugnance ", from Froissart to Simpson, "a rather usual and plebeian " name in order to collect inheritance.

  7. Iris Apfel - Wikipedia

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    Born Iris Barrel in to a Jewish family in Astoria, Queens, New York City, on August 29, 1921, [2] Apfel was the only child of Samuel Barrel (1897–1967), whose family owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye "Syd" Barrel (née Asofsky, 1898–1998), who owned a fashion boutique.