curtain

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New Yorker writer John McPhee, 95, calls these late-season ambitions “old-people projects,” open-ended activities designed to keep one busy until life’s closing curtain, whenever it might descend.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

The 129-foot waterfall — a wide curtain of white water cascading from a basalt cliff face — generates its own rainbow and once was dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by President Theodore Roosevelt.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

Pulling back the curtain on the league is a challenge.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

If you pull back the curtain on reader trends, you start to notice certain foods drifting in and out of seasonal favor.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

A blackout curtain is moved aside in a second-floor window.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin