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...except for piles of boxes. Michael is going to build a miniature of the Disneyland ride Pirates of the Caribbean here. It is pretty dark and I cannot see well. We walk into the kitchen. It is gleaming: white tile floors, chrome-and-black ovens, stove and appliances. The foyer of the house is Lighted by a chandelier dangling from the ceiling two floors above. The circular staircase leading to the second floor is carpeted in green, the floor is white marble. A square gold-leaf table holds a vase with an armful of flowers. There is a grandfather clock...
...speed bicycle was reported taken from the basement of Quincy House D. entry, a Fuji 10-speed mens' bicycle was missing from the foyer of the Weld Boathouse, and a womens' 10-speed was reported stolen from the basement of Weld Hall...
...Nebraska football team strains its sinew in a weight room that Cub Scouts tour. In the foyer of this unbelievable expanse of sweat, set off by red velvet ropes and little curators' plaques, is a museum of the original Cornhusker barbells and exercise bike. One has to grin. Associate Professor Susan Rosowski of the English department agrees that a sense of humor is helpful. "There's a strange duality," she says. "On the one hand, we're terribly proud of our Big Red, but we're also a little defensive about how big it is here...
...gray Porsche. His favorite hangout, the Babylon nightclub, is a gaudy Erechtheum stocked with black Naugahyde banquettes, pink and blue ribbons of neon, black-marble toilet stalls, and mirrors, mirrors everywhere. The mansion of Tony's dreams boasts an Olympic-size bathtub; in the foyer, statues of the Three Graces support a huge gold globe bearing the legend THE WORLD is YOURS...
...ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting...