Word: closet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incident better illustrates the Democrats' ability to counterpunch than last week's attack on Clinton by Bush's Southern campaign chairman, South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell. At a Washington press conference last Wednesday, Campbell blasted Clinton's Arkansas record and reiterated the G.O.P.'s standard line: Clinton's a closet liberal who favors "tax and spend all the way." Thanks to the news wires, Campbell's pending appearance had been noted in Little Rock, and thanks to Betsey Wright, Clinton's former gubernatorial chief of staff, the Democrats struck back even before Campbell spoke. Wright has collected just about everything...
...will wake up purple, and when friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers and other acquaintances see how many gays there are, and how many of these people already hold their trust, bigotry will vanish. In a sense, AIDS has done this. Fatal illness has forced some celebrities out of the closet and prompted others to assert their sexuality as an act of conscience. The sheer volume of suffering has made homosexuals less exotic and more sympathetic. Slowly the message is getting across that gays neither invented the disease nor bear special responsibility for transmitting it, that the epidemic is universal...
...balanced atop heavy rusting water pipes in the tiny Moscow abode that he has called home since last December. The room has no electricity and no running water. A dented tin bread box and several empty jars serve as his kitchen, while a cardboard box doubles as chair and closet. The decor is Dickensian: bare, paint-chipped walls, splintering floorboards and windows caked with dirt. Apartments in the old Soviet Union were none too luxurious, but this is a big step down...
...even that one-liner -- the spiraling ramp, soaring atrium and glass dome -- has been reinvigorated, allowed to have its punch line. For years the top section of the ramp was partitioned off and turned into a large closet. Now visitors can go all the way to the grand summit, and curators have been given back the best, roomiest gallery space in Wright's building...
...bring a camera. Inevitably, it will be buried under piles of unwashed laundry in the bottom of your closet when prime Kodak moments arise, but any photos are fun to pore through later...