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At Tebartz van Elst’s clinic, Müller, who has come in for a routine follow-up, is leafing through an album filled with prints of his artwork and mementos of his life before his downward spiral.

From Science Magazine • May 15, 2024

Casablancas is leafing through a copy of Noam Chomsky’s How the World Works, then notices a book about CBGB, the historic punk club that closed in 2006.

From Time • Oct. 26, 2014

When the doctor comes to see him, he is leafing through the Reader's Digest, idly looking for clues to his failure.

From Time Magazine Archive