Millions stayed glued to their televisions and radios, from the poorest slums to the presidential mansion, Los Pinos, where President Vicente Fox, his family and most of his cabinet gathered around to watch the disaster.
"Unlike previous administrations, and regrettably at times our own, where staff people and members of the cabinet were strutting around like peacocks showing their feathers, these people appear more worried about their boss than themselves".
Stratton appeared not in the traditional pit show or cabinet of curiosities but was celebrated around the world as a talented actor in highly theatrical, expensively produced melodramas, and he appeared in performances before American presidents and industrial barons as well as European and Asian royalty.
"So now she has a load of very unhappy shadow cabinet ministers wandering around," said one shadow minister.
A curiosity cabinet of visual pleasures.
Within the file cabinets of hundreds of television stations around the country are public files concerning political campaigns which often go completely unreported.
You can't just have a bunch of cabinet ministers bouncing around the room like bollocks in a tumble drier.
Mr. Lightner opened Atera in March after winning a national reputation at Castagna in Portland, Ore., and cooking at Noma in Denmark and Mugaritz in the Basque Country, poking around in their cabinets of curiosities.
His illness meant he was not allowed sugar or cake, but he kept things he loved around him: his cabinets of lead soldiers, the ancient peas from Tutankhamun's tomb that had germinated again, the Hermès silk ties.
Jane had to be sure of me because I was the person she had agreed would slowly dismantle the numerous filing cabinets of negatives and prints, fortress-like, around her desk and transfer them to the archive created by the Scott Trust to preserve the histories of the Observer and Guardian.
Dion's a collector of collections, especially the hundreds or thousands (or more - who knows how many?) hidden in forgotten buildings in small cities around the world: Cabinets of Wonder, specimen museums, obscure archives, as well as the complex and uncataloged collections of things, both manufactured and natural, one might find in, say, a patch of the rain forest or a bank of the Thames.
