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...sepulchral chamber hidden beneath Florence's Medici Chapel, accessible only through a trap door and a winding staircase, Sabino Giovannoni scraped away at the accumulated layers of soot, grime and whitewash. Slowly, almost reluctantly, the face of a woman began to emerge, a primeval woman who looked remarkably like the Eve in the Sistine Chapel. After several hours, Giovannoni telephoned Medici Chapels Director Paolo dal Poggetto. "Come over quickly," he said. "We've got something important here...
...door leads to the adjacent Church of San Lorenzo, and the last two open into small unused rooms on either side of the altar (Michelangelo called them lavamani, or washrooms). One of these lavamani had traces of various 16th century sketches under its old whitewash. The other had a trap door in its floor leading to a long, narrow storeroom. Perhaps, Dal Poggetto thought, the storeroom could become another exit to the street. But before digging into the walls, he assigned Restorer Giovannoni to take "soundings" by scratching away a few test layers of whitewash...
...discovered in the handwriting of Giovanni Battista Figiovanni, the prior of San Lorenzo who was in charge of the Medici tombs project. "I saved him from death," the prior wrote of Michelangelo, "and I saved his belongings too." It was in this very room-well hidden by its trap door, but at street level and adequately lit, even furnished with a cistern for water-that the prior, Dal Poggetto argues, hid the sculptor during the fall...
...London stage, and then to a tumultuous mating with a monstrously ugly Swiss sphinx named Leisl Vitzipiit-zli. The people are brilliant talkers, but when they natter on too long, the highly theatrical author causes a grotesque face to appear at a window, drops someone through a trap door or stages a preposterous recognition scene. A master illusionist himself, Davies well deserves a packed house when-on a bare stage, out of nowhere, in a puff of smoke-he materializes with his next book...
...there is no way they will live up to the glorified memories of days gone by. The Stones, especially Mick Jagger, once actively cultivated their Superstar personas--they themselves initiated the concert introduction of "the world's greatest rock and roll band." But in doing so they created a trap, and the Stones now are criticized for being just a good band playing good music. It is no coincidence that the Stones' last album and its leading cut are entitled "It's Only Rock and Roll" (the refrain: "and I like it, like it, yes I do"). The album conveys...