Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their blue-jeaned bodies into an abandoned storm cellar near by. He drove up to Meyer's house, killed him with one .410-gauge shotgun blast, stuffed the body in a washhouse. Then he and Caril headed back to Lincoln, tossed Jensen's schoolbooks out the car window as they rode...
Which, When & Where? Museum Director Molajoli rapidly found himself in the middle of one of the most vociferous of the debates that engross the international museum fraternity: how to light a painting. From the Renaissance to the 19th century, side-window lighting was the principal solution, with now and then a smoking torch to light a royal procession through a gallery. The Louvre's Grande Galerie, begun by Napoleon, introduced the skylight roof on a grand scale, and with it natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail...
...feeling that he has just dropped in for a quick shave; the scene in which the barbers take to each other with straight razors evokes the violence of the London slums in a specially horrible way. And On Stony Ground introduces a wistful clerk who has only two window boxes, but each day he buys a packet of seeds; his predicament is comic but only on the surface. Sansom is a real bloodletter. Suicide, madness and irreparable loss are the themes of other stories, and in each case the atmosphere is created with the soft, ghostly touch...
...Upper Story is not an art gallery, a coffee house, or a bargain bookstore. Whatever esoteric appeal the gift shop had while situated on an upper story was lost when it moved to a street-level, plate-glass window site on Church Street. According to Mrs. Howe, who runs The Upper Story with her husband, "We're eight years old, actually, and I guess you might say we've grown right along with Harvard Square. We were located on the second floor in that little alleyway where the Coop bookstore is. We were the first of several second floor shops...
...larger contains glassware, cutlery, furniture, salt and pepper shakers of assorted shapes and sizes, and several unusual imported items. Part of the smaller room is used for a greeting card display shelf which features the bizarre humor of the popular intellectual sort. The area just inside the display window contains enamelware, lamps, and hand-turned bowls, while woodwork lines the walls and shelves. "This part of the store," says Mrs. Howe, "we keep to display local crafts. There are so many galleries in the area now, and this is a gallery in a sense...