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...slight mold has developed on our books,” said Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, the library’s deputy director, who added that the mold was not dangerous or toxic. “[It’s] just the same as you would find in any basement or attic...
Upstairs at Dia is what could only be called the lair of Louise Bourgeois, who inhabits the space like a crazy old aunt in the attic. Born in 1911, Bourgeois is one of the founding figures of feminist art, and what she does has very little to do with the sanitary composure of Minimalism. Nothing could be further removed from Judd's mute boxes than the psychodrama of Bourgeois's sculptural pieces, with their sources in the clammiest corners of the psyche and in the meat and moisture of the human body. In recent years she has been showing variations...
...like the 1979 Rose Bowl or the 1968 World Series could have much value? Brian Bedol did. As a developer of Nickelodeon's all-rerun Nick at Nite sitcom programming in the early 1980s, he had proved, as he puts it, that "once you take something out of the attic, polish it and put it on display, it becomes an antique." So in 1995 Bedol created the Classic Sports Network and showed that the allure of sports TV is more powerful than most people imagined. ESPN bought Classic Sports in 1997 for $180 million, with Bedol making millions...
Virtually every horror film could be subtitled When Smart People Do Stupid Things. In a haunted house, they run up into the attic. In Dreamcatcher, Lee gets off the damn seat. Ka-bloom! Out pops a big, toothy worm with a bigger appetite. It's part of an outer-space colony bent on making all humans food for worms...
...Wonka-esque town music teacher, came to my elementary school to present the myriad of possible musical instruments to play to an audience of rapt third graders. “Play an instrument because you like the way it sounds, not because your grandma has a violin in the attic,” he told us, and, since already I loved the wolf’s theme in Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” I decided to play the French horn. The convolution of tubing didn’t daunt...