Word: closet
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...thought was a Valium. Not his fault that he grabbed the wrong pill bottle and ingested a hallucinogen instead. And so it goes - the obsessive, the insecure, the clinically demented, the madly narcissistic and the merely stuffy: A lot of hidden agendas are going to come out of the closet before this movie winds...
...enjoy a lunch made up of the cookies and sandwiches I stashed away in my carry-on bag while sitting in an airline lounge some continents ago. My laptop, I realize, is in a left-luggage office in one country, my suitcase is in a hotel storage closet in another, and I and my few valuables seem to be in a third...
...regular newspaper column about the sport - does not hide her distaste for bullfights. "I am deeply ashamed of living in a country with such a tradition", she said last year at a meeting of her Socialist Party Barcelona. That has allowed more Spaniards to come out of the closet and say they are against bullfighting. CACMA expects 3,000 people to gather at their Malaga demonstration. "This is not a tradition to maintain, but to eradicate," says Moreno Abolafio. "We must cast away the cliche of Spain represented by a man dressed as a bullfighter and a woman...
...nanotechnology, or in green engineering because of China's need to clean up its water and air. Many in the U.S. believe that growing income inequality will create a raft of service jobs to cater to the growing ranks of the rich-high-end hairdressers, personal trainers and closet designers, for instance-none of which are likely to be moved offshore...
...express their anxiety about the role of religion, particularly under the category of “Faith and Reason” in a required undergraduate curriculum. Old hostilities to religion as a legitimate area of inquiry were aroused, as was the specter of sinister creationists and out-of-the-closet Jesuits. It was bad enough to have a large and visible chapel here, but to give faith and reason a place in a curriculum long ceded to scientism seemed to be just too much. The reformers backed off, the rubric was removed, and the fears of legitimizing piety were...