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...introspective, he guarded his own privacy as carefully as that of his subjects. Taking a packet of sketches down from a cupboard to show to a critic one day, he remarked: "It's dreadful, revealing all these secrets." Self-revelation proved so distressing that Vuillard demanded in his will that the notes he made about his paintings remain sealed until...
Laboratory is more exciting. By sophisticated treatment of everybody cupboard compounds, one synthesizes chemical exotica. The poisons are the best. Along with tornados, poisons are the most charismatic things in nature. Introduction to a great poison or a great man is the same--the pulse quickens for both "Today you will use mercuric chloride. Inhalation of two tenths of a gram of mercuric chloride dust will kill...
...disturbed children-an average-size group-at the Sonia Shankman School. There, restraints are totally absent. Doors are never locked. There are no bars on the windows and virtually no rules. Spankings and scoldings are forbidden. Bedrooms burst with toys and stuffed animals. A soda fountain and an unlocked cupboard brimming with cookies and candy await any child with a nagging thirst and a sweet tooth. Outside in the grassy courtyard, a concrete nude "supermother"-twice life-size-sprawls on the grass. "She takes a lot of abuse," says Bettelheim. "The children stomp on her, curl up in her arms...
...Back in Cologne, they bought mortar and scrounged bricks from construction sites, then placed a sand-covered ceiling over the old entrance of their excavation - to make it appear that they had filled it in. Entering the excavation through a secret door they built through the back of a cupboard, they dug farther, shoring up their excavations with brick columns and meticulously uncovering stone after stone-some of them weighing 3 tons-from the monument...
Antique counterfeiters also build cupboards from the broad boards in the attics of old houses. To detect these, buyers should check the board ends to see whether they were sawed off with an electrical circular saw, which leaves curved lines, and look for nail holes plugged with plastic wood in places where a cupboard needs no nail at all. Then, says Grotz, there are the "cute little Early American pine three-drawer chests that are only as high as a Victorian commode." They are just that, with the lower doors removed and two drawers fitted into the space where...