Word: closet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back of a closet at my parents' house hangs my wrinkled and musty barong. In the six years since my father, a Filipino immigrant who married a WASP from Connecticut, brought it back from his home town, I haven't put it on even once...
Although the subject of inheritance is one of the last taboos in the once crowded American closet, it's getting harder and harder to conceal its prodigious effects on the huge segment of the population born after World War II. Says Brian O'Brien, 30, who used a $20,000 cash infusion from his parents to buy a $235,000 three-bedroom house in Walnut Creek, California, last year: "It's kind of like the unspoken reality of our generation. Everybody gets by and buys houses, and nobody asks where the money came from...
...biggest disappointment of all came when the President bought his young daughter a closet full of Gucci pumps for his Inaugural Ball. "Hillary and I felt these were more suitable for our daughter's feet," he said. "We're not going to sacrifice our daughter's orthopedic development to make a political point...
SEBASTIAN VENABLE HAS DIED. BUT how? That is the question in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, Tennessee Williams' 1958 hothouse melodrama about prefrontal lobotomy, closet homosexuality and cannibalism. If the subject matter no longer shocks, the play itself can still thrill, given the right actors. In PBS's Great Performances presentation, it has them, mostly. Maggie Smith, as Sebastian's aloof, vindictive mother, and especially Natasha Richardson, as his possibly insane cousin, who was with him when he died, are superb adversaries, both of them informing Williams' lyrical dialogue with the rich emotional life it must have. Only Rob Lowe fails, more...
...diary: "6:30 p.m. Will probably wait until morning to kill him. That way his body will still be fairly fresh for experiments after work." Dodd began strangling the boy at 5:30 a.m. He revived the child twice before finally killing him and hanging the body in a closet and burning the boy's clothing, except the Ghostbusters underpants, which he kept as a trophy...