The tortoiseshell glasses were still in place; the silver hair waved back over his strong bead.

With tortoiseshell glasses and thick white hair parted straight as a runway the man might have blended at a home for seniors.

In front of the white clock face, with hands frowning at 3:40, are Foujita's tortoiseshell glasses.

"She's here every night," a woman in tortoiseshell glasses and a fur hat groused.

"Good to meet you, Wyman," he said, peering over the rim of his tortoiseshell glasses.

She pulled off her tortoiseshell glasses and blinked at him.

"People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour," she said, peering over tortoiseshell glasses pushed down her narrow nose.

Slipping large tortoiseshell glasses over the bridge of her nose, she settled back between the chair's wide wings.

He was ordinary, pale, doughy-faced, with kind eyes behind thick tortoiseshell glasses.

It was answered by a young woman wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a look of cool assessment.