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Milk was a gay politician in San Francisco who became a martyr of the homosexual-rights movement in 1978, when he was shot and killed by another city councilman. The opera divides his life into three parts: "The Closet," "The Castro" and "City Hall" represent his sexual coming-of-age as a gay Jewish boy in New York, his rise to local fame at the epicenter of San Francisco's outlandish and highly promiscuous gay neighborhood and, finally, his death at the hands of Dan White, a former cop and fireman who hated everything Milk stood...
...provocative gesture of writing about a work she refused to see, her piece would have lost some of its eclat). New York Times columnist Frank Rich laid down the lines of the dialogue on the op-ed page. "aids is responsible for yanking death out of the American closet," he wrote. "This is the story of our time. Amazingly, Ms. Croce missed...
...creak down the thirteen or fourteen steps of the basement staircase, and he'd recognize "Thunderfoot" from the size-eleven heaviness of my movements, calling out that nickname to reintroduce me again to his world. I'd grab my own blanket from the closet at the back of the room, and he'd make sure I had socks on my feet before he'd allow me to stay; after that, I was free to plop myself into one of the upholstered chairs nearer the television, or perhaps settle for the carpeting in front of the coffee table...
...shortage of these in the 85 pages of court documents, many of them sworn statements by witnesses, that prosecutors presented to Judge Lance Ito. O.J. throwing Nicole against a wall, knocking her to a sidewalk, shattering her car windshield with a baseball bat, locking her in a wine closet, drunkenly pushing her from their Rolls-Royce as it drifted through a parking lot -- one after another the alleged episodes unfolded. When violence wasn't the major theme, it was humiliation. In one scene, O.J. taunted a pregnant Nicole as a "fat pig" and demanded that she abort their child...
Next came a brief interlude for a personal reflection by Aga Khan Professor of Iranian P. Oktor Skjaervo, who thought the Faculty meeting an appropriate setting for coming out of the closet. "In the four years I have been at Harvard, I would say a half dozen of my colleagues know I'm gay and have no problem with it," Skjaervo said. "They might not think it is such a big deal being gay. But gay people do have problems...