Word: closet
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...disposable income," says a spokesman for British Airways, whose ads - like the one marking its commitment to EuroPride '06 - appear in gay media both in print and online. That publicity has delivered the airline "good success in terms of driving revenues," he adds. "And that will continue." Commercial Closet Association, a New York City-based group that counsels firms on smarter representation of gays in advertising, logged 436 gay-themed ads in global gay and mainstream media last year - around a fifth of which appeared in Europe - versus around 350 in 2003. "What might seem a very brave step...
Rusty learned to accept some of Andrea's secretiveness. "I know a few things about her," he says, "but I don't know a lot. I don't probe. I don't want to be nosy." He even respected her obsession about undressing and changing in a closet, out of his sight. She did not like confrontation and argument. He says he wanted her to speak up, but she didn't. She avoided conflicts with stints of silence that lasted days or weeks until he confronted her. "Throw a frying pan at me. Do anything!" Rusty says he told...
...Well, for one, I think he was probably a closet homosexual who did a lot of cocaine. That ‘Yale’ thing...
LEMONS NEVER LIE RICHARD STARK "GROFIELD opened the closet door and the wrestler smiled up at him with his slit throat." Grofield is a summer-stock actor who moonlights as a usual-suspects-type contract criminal. He's a thief, not a psycho-killer, so when an actual murderous nut job tries to hire him, he walks away. He should have run. Instead, Grofield winds up in this first-rate hard-boiled mystery by Richard Stark (also known to aficionados of the genre by his real name, Donald E. Westlake), which reads like Raymond Chandler with a dark literary whisper...
...haven?t pulled it out of the closet, but I have a feeling it will be tighter than it used...