I mean that the modern museum, whether it is a collection of art or oddments, derives partly from the old Kunst-und Wunderkammern, or art-and wonder-cabinets, and it retains its original aspirations to wonderment.
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With its 30-plus stores-- 12 devoted to home furnishings and decorative oddment, and half of those opened within the last 16 months, by first-time proprietors-- the block is an alternative mecca for decorative arts enthusiasts.
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Lichter is a relentless collector, and stored in his shop is a trove of oddments like a pair of tefillin whose scriptural passage had been written on the wrong side of the parchment and a tefillin that had been run over by a car.
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Sprinkled throughout the cases are scarabs, canopic jars ( containers for the dead person's organs ), even ancient baskets, along with reproductions of Egyptian sculpture and such oddments as a medieval-looking pot with a cactus growing in it.
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In the oldest part of the gardens are low concrete walls Finster called " mountains, " in which he embedded an assortment of oddments including candy boxes, party horns, his son's tonsils in a jar and dashboard figurines.
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In an upstairs bathroom, there's an homage to Louise Nevelson : photographs of the angular-jawed, Russian-born sculptor are framed by white-painted oddments of wood, the entire assemblage crowned by a black riding cap she once wore.
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Work dried up and the only assignments he could get at the height of the purge of suspected Hollywood Communists by the House Un-American Activities Committee were oddments like " Robot Monster " ( 1953 ) and " Miss Robin Crusoe " ( 1954 ).
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Other oddments : the risk of your falling behind in mortgage payments, 1 in 24; getting a divorce in the next year, 1 in 96; contracting an infection as a hospital patient, 1 in 15; being in a plane accident, 1 in 500, 000.
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The hoopla has even inspired a subversive counter-event, the annual Doo Dah Parade in late November, in which an anarchic group of local wags sponsors a stream of Elvis impersonators, dogs in drag and other oddments, mocking the cherished, polite rituals of the Rose Parade and its organizers.
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To peer into the stream ( only about 15 feet wide, at that point ) and inspect the oddments nestling against the rocks _ a decaying walnut, a decomposing thistle that could have been a sea anemone, a weathered Nehi bottle that might have contained a secret message from a desert island.
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