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Built at the turn of the century and shut down in 1986 after a local news affiliate exposed the asylum's atrocities, Pennhurst's myriad sins included everything from overcrowding to doctors ripping patients' teeth out as punishment for unruly behavior.

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This time, the asylum's been extended into an entire walled city in the heart of Gotham, proffering soot-black skyscrapers from which you can swoop and glide.

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'Starry Night' transported the artist beyond an asylum's walls to a landscape summoned by his imagination.

Van Gogh's Transcendent Vision Mary Tompkins Lewis 2008

Herzog's pursuit of the mad also leads him to a local asylum, where he films a totally unrelated sequence of a young retarded man riding a horse, before the asylum's director tells him about two men who both believe themselves to be Gesualdo, and the difficulties of keeping them apart from one another.

Archive 2007-11-01 Ed Howard 2007

Herzog's pursuit of the mad also leads him to a local asylum, where he films a totally unrelated sequence of a young retarded man riding a horse, before the asylum's director tells him about two men who both believe themselves to be Gesualdo, and the difficulties of keeping them apart from one another.

11/25: Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices Ed Howard 2007

Just think of all that healthy, exuberant volunteer service going to waste under the asylum's nose!

Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1896

Your desire to dedicate my life to the public good is very sweet, but you should look at it from the asylum's point of view.

Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1896

'He is one of our most affluential Trustees, and has given large sums of money towards the asylum's support.

Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster 1896

Jerusha escaped from the pantry where she had been making sandwiches for the asylum's guests, and turned upstairs to accomplish her regular work.

Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster 1896

Just as the asylum's the place for folks who believe in 'em.

The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play David Belasco 1892