Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canvases. Yet they retained the energy of existence, as if held up by ballooning lungs filled with air. Man's presence in the paintings was as ephemeral as life itself. The figures might exhale abruptly, and in a trice all would collapse like empty clothes falling to a closet floor...
...piece of furniture was a large single bed. In the Simons' bedroom, it reached from wall to wall. To get to the closet, they had to walk over the bed. It might have seemed more sensible to sleep in the living room, but there was a skylight there with a considerable hole in it, and, in winter, snow frequently came pouring through...
...every lock. The minute he sees the heroine he starts weaving Lemmoniacal schemes to lure her into his "sin bin," a flat with blood-red wallpaper, passion-pit living room, bed about the size of Luxembourg, and two Murphy violins that hideaway in a closet and at the flick of a switch pop out and play...
...views on Richard Nixon in 1960 - and how Nixon gave in in a fashion that may well have cost him the election. Says a top Republican of the possibility that Rocky will try to repeat that performance: "He might break all the china in the party's closet...
...seizure of church property, forbade his clergy to take an oath of loyalty to the new regime, and eventually was put under house arrest. One day in 1949 Justice Minister Alexei Cepicka visited the archiepiscopal palace, hoping to bully him into submission. In answer, Beran went to a closet, picked up a bundle of ragged clothes that he had worn at Dachau, said "Let's go." He was hustled out of public view to imprisonment in a series of well-guarded country villas...