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This is a closet drama, but the closet has a window with a view of the sea. In an early scene Ada comes to the beach and finds her piano in a crate. Opening it, she plays ecstatically; her daughter dances gaily, garlanded in seaweed; and Baines gets a first inkling of the lifeline that art is for Ada. The camera ascends to Campion's favorite bird's-eye view to reveal a huge sea horse magically sculpted from sand and shells. Life, this beautiful image suggests, is a pattern we cannot see, except through the artist's Olympian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wuthering Eighty-Eights | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

While in school, Yale students say they work and party hard. First-year Sarah Morton reports that "if you look for a social life, you can find it." Morton added that Yale has its share of "closet nerds," people she said pretend not to study, but cram all they...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Myriads of Problems Beset Yale University | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

...emerging from the closet, once and for all. I am not ashamed to admit it. I was a staff member of the infamous Inside Edge...

Author: By Maren Lau, | Title: On Being an Edge Woman | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

...nation's growing trend toward democratization and modernization. To rally opposition to NAFTA, Perot often relies on a portrait of Mexico as dirty, corrupt and backward. He uses border pollution as a code to conjure up stereotypical images of filthy Mexicans. (Though few would have guessed he is a closet tree-hugger, Perot is not above dressing in green when it suits his needs...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: The NAFTA Debate's Quiet Bigotry | 11/10/1993 | See Source »

...sometimes interesting detail: when two objects of his admiration showed up together at an opera, he writes, "pangs reserved exclusively for the gay shot through me--I was jealous of both parties at once." "My good fortune," Merrill also writes," was to stay in one place while the closet simply disintegrated." For many, the most interesting aspect A Different Person will be its recording of a rich, moderately open gay microworld from the early 1950s...

Author: By Stephen L. Burt, | Title: The Prosaic Reveries of James Merrill | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

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