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With the Princess Diana museum reopening Thursday, her birthday, for its second summer season at Althorp, her family home in England, the Daily Telegraph reported that some 25,000 tickets still remain unsold, whereas last year all 150,000 tickets were snatched up before opening day.
During the early 1980s, sensationalist journalism, combining true-crime stories with garbled statistics, convinced much of the public that America is a nation where vast numbers of children are snatched from their happy families by mysterious strangers every year.
I quickly snatched up a bunch of size 40s before any of the salespeople could get close to me, and headed toward the changing room.
(David O. Russell made his great Spanking The Monkey on "short ends" snatched up by his wife, Janet Grillo, then a New Line executive.)
None other than the emperor Napoleon III himself snatched up the glorious Souvenir de Mortefontaine for 3,000 francs and hid it away in the palace at Fountainebleau, where he could admire in private the great horizontal sweep of the central tree, and the standing woman's posture echoed in another, barer tree.