Word: closet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crawled into Mir last March, joining the two men she came to know affectionately as her "two Yuris"--cosmonauts Yuri Onufrienko and Yuri Usachev. The Russian station is a cluster of six cramped, camper-size pods, with most of the living space devoted to labs. Personnel sleep in curtained, closet-like enclosures at the end of one pod and exercise with their bodies bungeed into place on treadmills; when it comes time for a shower, they must get by with space shampoo and a tepid sponge bath. ("NASA has promised to hose her down before they give her back," quips...
...white hands crumpling a job-rejection notice while a voice said, "You needed that job...but they had to give it to a minority." A number of G.O.P. operatives, led by Paul Curcio, then the political director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, warned candidates that Morris was a closet Democrat. Morris promised he wouldn't work for Democrats, but Curcio learned he was handling one in Mississippi. "He always had an excuse," says Curcio. "'Oh, that guy's going to change parties.' Then I found out he was working for the Connecticut Democrats. He had an excuse for that...
...drinks. In fact, the contrast reflects the entire mood of today's Seattle. Just now, as flocks of young professionals move to that young, rainy corner of the world, cities like Seattle and Portland try all sorts of culture on for size. Like a kid searching her mother's closet clothes to try on, they emerge with an eclectic selection--new and entertaining. Not what mom would put together, but certainly more refreshing and creative...
...Lott won the majority leader's post with the support of some G.O.P. moderates like Jim Jeffords of Vermont and Olympia Snowe of Maine, who believe he is a closet dealmaker. For instance, he pushed a compromise on the telecommunications bill earlier this year that, perhaps not incidentally, benefited a Mississippi company. Lott is a longtime friend of Bill Clinton's ambidextrous political consultant Dick Morris, who advised Lott in both his Senate races and frequently conferred with the Senator during last year's budget fireworks...
That is where I thought I would spend my life: a cultural Jew, an agnostic, a closet nihilist...