Word: closet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going back there. The closet was a scared, shameful place and I am not going back there. I slammed my way out of there with all my might, and our unfortunate meeting reminded me of that other urge deep inside of me: the urge to keep slamming my way out, again and again, no matter what. The urge to rail out against whatever I must in order...
...think I will. This isn't a matter of making you pay for what you've done; it's a matter of standing up for myself and for other gay people, out or in, who could just as easily be threatened by your harassment. Your bigotry deserves its own closet...
...guidelines and doesn't buy movies rated NC-17. "A hundred-percent freedom," says Disney CEO Michael Eisner. "They're completely autonomous. And they should be. They keep their costs down and their ideas up. They look rough-and-tumble, but I always knew they were secret intellectuals and closet film experts. They run the business very well." Eisner has reason to be pleased. In 1993 Disney bought Miramax for about $75 million, the cost of a single A-budget studio film. Today, one movie boss believes, the company is worth more than $1 billion...
...remember." A quick trip to the reference shelf reveals the answer: The Towering Inferno, arguably the worst film ever nominated (and the only one starring O.J. Simpson). So maybe there is something to be said for including little art-house movies on Oscar night. And maybe Brenda Blethyn's closet holds something delightfully ill conceived...
There was a better chance, it seemed, of someone coming out of the closet at an N.R.A. meeting. Basically, I was going to be besides myself if the 20.5-point underdogs covered the spread...