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...Anyone who has discovered an aging newspaper in an attic can vividly picture the condition of many of the books in the Harvard Library," the brochure says...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Humidity Decaying Widener's Volumes | 3/7/1997 | See Source »

...reason why it was the least desirable is because it was the least beautiful," Hastings said. "Now we have the most beautiful dining hall, and students especially love our two-tier suites made from the renovated attic space...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: PfoHo Dedicates Room To Masters | 11/20/1996 | See Source »

TOKIN' FLO! Florence Nightingale attended seances and took drugs. In an 1887 letter found in the attic of an antiques dealer, Nightingale says she took bromide, which was given to soldiers to curb libido...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 2, 1996 | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...lived openly with Davies, a comedian he foolishly tried to remake as Garbo. She stayed with him, good times and bad, in San Simeon (the "Xanadu" of Kane), his Spanish-Moorish-Italian "ranch" crammed with four millenniums' worth of trophies. It was your crazy uncle's attic, half the size of Rhode Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRAISING KANE | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...captured by Sid, the toy torturer next door. Sid must have spoken to a deep, dark streak in the animators, so lovingly do they detail the boy's atrocities. His bedroom, a playpen for Krafft-Ebing, is a place of ominous eccentric angles (his parents stuck him in the attic) and walls papered with posters for bands like Megadork. "The patient is prepped," he declares, revealing a doll with its head in a vise. This Sid is vicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TOY STORY: THEY'RE ALIVE! | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

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