11.   A tattered vinyl curtain opens to reveal finned lasses lolling in the spring.

12.   A trapdoor below the soufa opens to reveal a grain store for sesame seeds and wheat.

13.   A watertight disc that fits in your pocket and squeezes open to reveal a moist sponge inside.

14.   Certain devices, like having the giant, Warholesque portrait of Timon open to reveal a vacant center, are labored.

15.   Here, a shoji screen opened to reveal views of the garden and its ofuro.

16.   His home, before dark and musty, now is brilliantly lit, its windows open to reveal the splendor of its surroundings.

17.   It opens to reveal a small laptop computer on one side, and what looks like an ordinary pad of paper on the other.

18.   It opens to reveal an arrangement of cubbyholes and drawers.

19.   It rushes down a cedar staircase in the rear and flows under two black leather suitcases flanking her, open to reveal watery recesses.