Word: curtained
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...could forget that January afternoon last year when Michael Jordan, generally considered the best basketball player in history and arguably one of the best athletes of the century, took his final curtain call...
...Tickets $23 to 73. Student rush tickets $12.50, one hour before curtain at the box office...
...main attraction at this year's Whitney Biennial is a black curtain or, more accurately, what is hidden behind it. To this day, a uniformed guard is stationed outside Hans Haacke's "Sanitation" in anticipation of a mob. Story has it that during the early days of the Biennial, the guard did indeed earn his keep, but today, as disinterested museum-goers walk briskly by, he looks superfluous, if not ornamental...
...scientists studying the business of parenting, parting the curtain on the animal world helps explain not only how mothering strategies work but also how they sometimes break down. Confused teens aren't the only mothers who abandon their babies; other mammals do it too. Parents may recoil when a Susan Smith drowns her sons in a South Carolina pond, but scientists routinely observe infanticidal animals--apparently driven by similarly dark demons--committing similarly black acts...
...there would be toothpaste on the sinks. Upon turning [the shower] on, I would notice that the water would slowly drip out of one of the spigots and there would be an inconsistent spray that barely misted my body. The soap would be impossible to remove, the curtain would be sticky and have algae growing on it; the drain clogged with gallons of human hair and the lights would...