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Reassembly of the interior was a more detailed and painstaking work. Bear heads, for instance, were carved on newel posts, faithful to an old photograph and to a few pieces of the original stairway which were found in a Sacramento church. The mint-green assembly chamber now dazzles visitors with its crystal chandeliers and 1870s carved desks. The smaller but richer senate chamber blushes with rose carpeting and brocade drapery. Nine other rooms, including offices of former Governors, have been restored as an exhibit at a cost of $1.7 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Cheers for a Born-Again Capitol | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

Well, the proud innkeep asked the Queen to upcreep a stairway that no one could see; When dinner was served, she ate unobserved, then again wafted downways by stair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 28, 1981 | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...Pratt Institute, a school of arts, engineering and science in Brooklyn. Milster and his wife Phyllis care for, they believe, 40 orphan cats. The number keeps changing, but always the house seethes with prowling felines. They have taken over couches, chairs, beds, sinks and tubs. They perch on the stairway, roost on the bookcase, snooze in the laundry basket. They also occupy the dining room table, and the childless Milsters no longer eat there. Litter pans crowd the walls, the halls and the corners. Food and water bowls are set out in odd places. Cats suffering from infectious diseases inhabit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...Song Remains the Same (Chittenden Hall): 24 versions of "Stairway to Heaven," and one long drum solo. Do you really want to sit through that? We don't. In fact, we don't want to sit through a movie at all this weekend. Now how 'bout a beer...

Author: By De Witt, | Title: De Witt Goes South and Gets Drunk | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...There's a good quote from Stairway to Heaven," he says. "I tell it to juvenile delinquents in the hall where I do some counseling: 'There are two paths you can go by/But in the long run, you can always change the one you're on.' I did. I made myself proud of myself. That's why I do volunteer work: I have something to share...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Making It With Pride | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

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