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curtain

[kur-tn] / ˈkɜr tn /


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What are you hoping this documentary will do in terms of making people a little bit more aware of who Elon Musk is and getting at the man behind the curtain, so to speak?

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Iñárritu spends the film’s first quarter setting the scene and characters — strangely quite literally, raising what looks like a stage curtain but is revealed to be a window shade.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

The 70-foot-wide curtain painstakingly created by L.A. artist Enrique Martínez Celaya is a surprising choice for a major opera house where one would expect a pattern or imagery related to storytelling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Light-sensitive, “Invasion Picture” was installed in Atlanta behind a burgundy velvet curtain, beside photographs of fortunetellers’ façades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Aunt Kate’s eyes darted from the heavy red curtain to the back door of the railcar, where Mr. Pinkerton was still standing guard.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

David is never lucid again, and as death comes, under a starry night, Sarah and Robert open the curtains and wait for morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"I can open my bedroom curtains and see dolphins out my window, it's so surreal, especially being from Kent where you don't really get much of that."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

A prolific artist, Max created marketable work that was licensed for many consumer products, from shower curtains to planes and cruise ships, and even a line of "art clocks" commissioned by General Electric.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

But fearmongers are jumping even further ahead and saying that once AGI exists, it could mean curtains for the human species.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

She stopped now and then to straighten a book or align the curtains.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Mr. Noseda seems slightly amused by the weirdness of these curtained interviews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

The atmosphere among a crowd of just over 6,000 - in a 24,000-capacity arena where the upper tier was curtained off - was muted at times during the doubles.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024

Pipeline opponents had criticized the Wednesday meeting because oral testimony was only accepted in private to stenographers in a curtained area in a hotel ballroom.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

One votes in private, in a curtained booth, on intimate terms with an oversize ballot.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

It was hard to see much in the dawn light—the sun was rising behind the house—but with the curtained windows glowing, it looked warm and cozy.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

He can no longer hold back this rage that he has been curtaining off with these civil gestures.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2023

Cedars-Sinai has recruited more staff and expanded areas to care for patients, including curtaining off places in the hospital as “alternative care units.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

The curtaining of the Carnegie disappointed a stream of hungry would-be customers on Monday, many of them tourists who went out of their way to test their tolerance for protein.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2015

In one year the F. W. Woolworth Co. sold 45 tons of candy, 5,113 miles of curtaining, 54 million handkerchiefs.

From Time Magazine Archive

His voice hardened into steel, his velvet eyes flashed through their curtaining lashes.

From The Game and the Candle by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram


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