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...seat for this late January performance was an orange-crate-turned-bench, squeezed against the backside of the stage left wall in a room bearing closer resemblance to a glorified furnace closet than any kind of backstage rest stop. The equal ceiling was gnarled with heating pipes, and about ten feet, back--where the room slightly used out to its end--crouched an old fat furnace, gurgling away through most of the show. Next to it stood a vaudevillian theatre mirror lined with a few dusty but brightly lit bulbs. Old pop cans, boxes, and performance notes decked the floor...
...doubt (which is to say most of the '60s), Melish calms himself by meditating on the contents of his wallet. There is a secret-society pin, a silver matchbook from his wedding and-not to be believed-a condom. Melish is a clear case of arrested development, a closet sentimentalist carrying a cherished artifact of his hot-to-trot days at a time when everyone else seems to be in full gallop...
...hearing things. That early Christian fresco chapel at the MFA has a choir recording hidden in in a closet somewhere that starts and stops playing on a schedule only it understands...
...Vienna have modernized that technique. The new treatment combines the use of a drug called methoxsalen, which is extracted from the Egyptian plant, and an extraordinary high-intensity ultraviolet light. First the dermatologists have the patient swallow methoxsalen pills. Then they stand him in a telephone-booth-size closet lined with 48 of the special ultraviolet tubes. The patient stays in the booth from eight to 30 minutes, depending upon his degree of skin coloration...
...disaster, and ne'er-do-well Son James is planning to marry his father's typist. Upstairs is distraught; downstairs, aghast. Pale green eyes narrowing in her pretty vixen's mask, head Houseparlormaid Rose Buck voices the general anxiety: "A stranger has been in my linen closet. I don't know if I'm still wanted here...