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The glory of Gorey Just inside the house of the late Edward Gorey, a doll's feet are sticking out from under a rug. The scene duplicates one from Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies," a rhyming abecedarian that relates the fates of 26 doomed children. In this case, "G is for George, smothered under a rug." (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)

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