Word: cupboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...massacre had by last week turned to more quiet dismay and introspection. Editorial and public response, while not forgiving, was philosophical. Typical was Milan's Corriere delta Sera, which sadly noted: "Every country on the old continent has a fine collection of skeletons in the cupboard...
...plot in poetry, T. S. Eliot has compared it to a lump of meat thrown a house dog by a burglar (the writer) to keep him busy while the real business is attended to?rifling the silver cupboard or dealing in the wizardry of words. Nabokov feels the same...
Cortés spent the next two years virtually walled up in his father's house-hidden in a hollow space of 3 ft. by 6 ft., originally intended as a cupboard. "Sometimes I would come out at night," he says, "but the house was often searched in those days." Then, in 1941, the landlord told the family that they must leave the house and find another. They managed to find one with a conveniently similar wall cupboard elsewhere in the town, and Cortés made the move by night, dressed in women's clothes, his head...
...work mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum. Its title is the first eye opener: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea. The figure's mouth is an angry gap, its nose vaguely phallic, its ears two wooden plugs, its body a cupboard. When a viewer (avoiding the museum's watchful guard) opens the cupboard door, he finds a tiny armless man dangling head down from a trapeze. Beneath, a ship is sinking in a sea of bottle tops. A savage commentary on the condition of man? A joke? If it is a joke...
...three-story cream-colored chalet, with its red-tiled roof, sits on a knoll in a one-acre garden of pine and chestnut trees. Those who have been inside the villa describe its furnishings as "early Mussolini-pretty ugly stuff." In the entrance stand a wooden cupboard, a nondescript sofa and a desk manned by a Frenchman who appears to be a security man assigned by the French Communist Party. In the second-floor salon where Madame Binh has her office and receives visitors, the original pictures have been taken down (with the hooks left hanging), and portraits of N.L.F...