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Sliding Roof. Most studios look like collections of local airport hangars. Universal City is full of ivy-covered cottages and real grass. Visitors can go through Doris Day's dressing room and peek into her closet, which contains everything but a sign saying Do Not Disturb the Skeletons. Along the tour, they can buy souvenir miniature rubber boulders, which, they are told, are similar to the 5,000,000 standard props in use in the studio complex. They also learn that 800 vehicles are required just to transport people among the 35 sound stages, and the office building...
...troops entered the rebel headquarters near Lumumba Square, a black hand was spotted reaching from a closet to clo& the door. A Belgian opened up with his automatic rifle. In the headquarters alone, 25 rebels-mostly unarmed, minor political types -were sprayed with rifle fire as they hid under beds, beneath the kitchen table, and in wardrobes, which toppled like tipped coffins as their occupants died. Outside, Tshombe's tough Katangese gendarmes hunted down Simbas...
...Colorado Springs listened incredulously to the high-pitched message coming over the wires. Fortunately, Pearson added, telling the story at a rally in Manitoba last week, he was able to grab the receiver from his four-year-old grandchild, Robin Hannah, who had found the phone in a closet. "I explained to the officer on the other end that war had not begun," said Mike...
...screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress, throw fish at her daughter, uncork the wine vat, scrape rubbish off the floor and dump it into the master's soup. "What did you put in the closet?" asks one. "The chicken droppings," replies the sister...
...with inches of dust. But Pi casso regarded it as a kind of album of his first marriage. Taken to see it, Françe began to think of Picasso as some sort of Bluebeard. Writes she: "I began to have the feeling that if I looked into a closet, I would find half a dozen ex-wives hanging by their necks...