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...Broadway has long been the Gay White Way. When Broadway, in the postwar era of Tennessee Williams, William Inge and Edward Albee, addressed homosexual themes, it did so in the metaphorical closet. The modern gay writer can address his dreams and demons directly; and in the aids plague, he has a suitable subject for domestic tragedy. Today the gay sensibility -- acerb, lusty, nostalgic, poignant -- dominates high drama and low comedy...
...body and face as her mother watched. John later added that Pauline joined in the beating. When Christina started screaming, he stopped her mouth with a towel. When she choked and went into seizures, he says, he tried to perform CPR, unsuccessfully. The couple kept her corpse in a closet for four days. Last Friday, just 17 hours after South Carolina police shocked the nation with the announcement that they were taking Susan Smith in for murdering her children, Pauline Zile, like her husband, was also charged with murder...
David Goldbrenner displays unwarranted presumption in attempting to speak for all people who have been raped or sexually harassed, who are trying to come out or deciding whether to stay in the closet, who want to discuss the risks and benefits in safer...
Even as Oliver North, the G.O.P. candidate for Senator from Virginia, continued to hammer away at Democratic incumbent Charles Robb's extramarital indiscretions, voters were reminded of ghosts in North's own closet. North paraded former Iran-contra players Edwin Meese and Elliott Abrams to vouch for his integrity. Meanwhile, Nancy Reagan publicly called North a liar...
...feel that there's a lot of closet Republicanism we can tap into," says Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club member Heather A. Clayton '98. "I'm disappointed with the attitude that everyone is liberal so there's no debate. It seems awfully closed-minded...