Store employees are sworn to secrecy, attending training sessions for the even and black curtains are expected to unveil something wonderful.

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Along with a mandatory 7am meeting on Sunday, staff will reportedly put up black curtains around all Apple stores, no doubt piquing the interest of passers-by.

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The two largest black curtains on each side of the court will remain up, increasing the capacity to about 15, 000, said Bryan Felt, the associate athletic director for development of external affairs at Seton Hall.

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So when the Pirates moved in 2007 to the new (and only slightly smaller) Prudential Center in Newark, university officials decided to cut the capacity roughly in half by lowering four giant black curtains over the seats in the upper bowl for Pirates games.

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No standing in the corridors for hours, no being shunted off for a troop train to pass, and above all, no black-out curtains.

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The furniture is still wet and the curtains are black with mold in Pura Gonzalo's Far Rockaway home, where the 89-year-old Cuban immigrant says she has throat problems and feels exhausted.

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With little furniture, no backdrops except for a few curtains, and everything painted black, the atmosphere is claustrophobic and often nightmarish.

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To give the formal areas of the house a stately feel, he installed black double doors, stained black walnut flooring, and blue velvet curtains.

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