Word: attics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forgotten still life gathering dust in an attic for decades was identified as a Van Gogh. The painting, probably executed in 1886, was picked up at a flea market in France just after World War II, but its purchaser did not recognize the signature. Curators at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum declined to put a value on Still Life (Vase with Flowers); in 1990 Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold for $82.5 million...
...process of trying to clear out books from the attic" to use the space for labs, the dean says. "People are working in subbasements...
...Openings in the ceiling were made to adjustacoustics...and acoustic curtains were put intothe attic," Lichten said. "The openings into theattic were also used to install performancelights...
Thayer's previously-unused top floor was transformed into attic suites with skylights, and Hurlbut got a new, more conspicuous entrance...
...severed as though cut by a knife. "England is quite tolerant in many ways," Samuels notes, "but when aliens try to retain their differences, there is not much tolerance." Her play, now in New York City after its premiere at London's Soho Theatre Company, takes place in an attic, where a middle-age woman sorting through her belongings reluctantly confronts who she had once been. As a nine-year-old named Eva Schlesinger, she says a last farewell to her German mother. Brought up by a good-hearted Englishwoman, young Eva clings to the hope of returning until salvation...