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...bubble wrap, packing peanuts and tissue paper, the utensils and gadgets that fill Julia Child’s drawers and cabinets will travel to the museum. As soon as they hit the loading dock in Washington, the boxes will go straight to an exhibit room where museum workers will unpack them in full public view. For about six months, visitors will be able to watch as each object is given its official number and is registered in the museum’s database of artifacts...
...We’ll literally unpack the crates in front of people,” Green says. “It’s museum people at work....It’s not really dramatic but, hey, it is what we do. And [museum visitors] will get some of this stuff that they’re dying...
...White House downplay the seriousness of his problem. But aides say that after four heart attacks in 23 years, Cheney is inured to his health troubles and incapable of relaxing at home. When he was there briefly after the surgery, aides let it be known he helped his wife unpack boxes. Back at work, he told people to stop asking him how he was feeling...
...Lincoln, faced with the breakup of the Republic, suspended habeas corpus. What could the Florida Supreme Court do, when confronting a similar threat, except to tell the vote counters to keep on counting, and to count until they had found sufficient votes to cause Barbra and the rest to unpack their bags and redirect their drivers from the international terminal at LAX to Bel-Air for lunch...
Hence the teasing, intensely publicized secrecy; the warehouses bristling with security; the demands that bookstores not sell or even unpack copies of the new book before the first moments of July 8 (although a few did slip out earlier). Publishing records were noisily announced: a 3.8 million-copy first printing in the U.S., a million more in Britain...