It stands about as much chance of becoming law as I do of starting for the Atlanta Hawks (I'm 5'7", 37 years old and have the speed and vertical leap of an armoire).Of course, both parties play the turnout game.
Chests decorated in the new style were still widely used, although frequently replaced by the armoire (a tall cupboard or wardrobe), which was sometimes made in two stages, the upper compartment containing numerous small drawers.
The video ends with Bowie shakily writing a note before walking into a dark armoire that stands beside the bed.
Some find his tics and Belgianisms – 'he has, shall we say, the skeletons in the armoire' – adorable.
The sale on Saturday, which had a pre-auction estimate of $200,000 to $400,000, featured a kitchen chalkboard where Jackson's children had written "I love daddy", which sold for $5,000, and an armoire, upon which Jackson wrote a message to himself on the mirror, which fetched $25,750.
The English subtitle has him saying, "It's just a regular armoire".
From where she's lying, if she slides her eyeballs as far to the left as possible, she can see it: the orange suitcase, sitting placidly on top of her armoire, under the extra sheets and towels she never uses.
By keeping her eyes fixed on the screen, she avoids the possibility of glimpsing the orange suitcase, still resting on top of the armoire.
It all made him think of the shabby armoire in his grandparents' bedroom, which he had dug through as a child, in search of the creased photos from their childhood.
In the nook called Oprah's Closet you can buy her hand-me-downs, sizes 8 to 16. Hanging in the armoire when I visited: a jaunty Charles Nolan floral knee-length skirt, size 10 ($220); a taffeta Vera Wang gown, size 14 ($325); and a long cream-colored Armani silk dress with side slit, size 12 ($275).
In the 1939 French film noir "Le Jour Se Lève," for instance, there's a moment when the concierge, pressed by the police about a piece of furniture in the killer's apartment, tells them that it's "une armoire comme toutes les armoires" — "An armoire like all armoires".
