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...other extreme was the experience of Eliseo Martinez, a former Marine sergeant who came out of the closet halfway through his six-year tour at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in California. One day one of his men called another a "faggot." Martinez suggested to the name-caller that he seemed insecure about his own sexuality. Later, Martinez was called in by his commanding officer, who requested details of the clash, then asked if he could pose a question. "Are you gay?" he asked. "Yes, sir," Martinez replied. "Well," the commander said, "you're still doing a good...
...back of a closet at my parents' house hangs my wrinkled and musty barong. In the six years since my father, a Filipino immigrant who married a WASP from Connecticut, brought it back from his home town, I haven't put it on even once...
...high drama, where everyone must suffer, especially the audience -- that O'Neill felt obliged to declare he was misunderstood. In fact, he had been found out: without the scaffolding of tragedy, his stagecraft was exposed as ramshackle, his creatures as puppets. Though producers drag Anna Christie out of the closet every decade or so (for Ingrid Bergman, Celeste Holm, Liv Ullmann), they can't shake the mothballs from it. "Isn't it terrible?" said Greta Garbo, who toiled nobly in a 1930 film version. "Who ever saw Swedes act like that...
Although the subject of inheritance is one of the last taboos in the once crowded American closet, it's getting harder and harder to conceal its prodigious effects on the huge segment of the population born after World War II. Says Brian O'Brien, 30, who used a $20,000 cash infusion from his parents to buy a $235,000 three-bedroom house in Walnut Creek, California, last year: "It's kind of like the unspoken reality of our generation. Everybody gets by and buys houses, and nobody asks where the money came from...
...diary: "6:30 p.m. Will probably wait until morning to kill him. That way his body will still be fairly fresh for experiments after work." Dodd began strangling the boy at 5:30 a.m. He revived the child twice before finally killing him and hanging the body in a closet and burning the boy's clothing, except the Ghostbusters underpants, which he kept as a trophy...