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With the '84 election out of the way, many strong contenders are coming out of the closet, leading observers to believe that the Democratic primary race will be a knock-down, drag-out battle between the region's heaviest heavies...
...accurate portrayal of a loudmouthed, gregarious American makes the audience cringe: it is doubly funny because she has convinced the Jackson that she and her husband are Canadian. McGoohan? What can you say about a man who can turn a casually waved cigarette into a deadly rhetorical weapon? But closet Prisoner fans should not go expecting to see No. 6 in civil service dotage; Stewart is the ultimate government spokesman, and McGoohan plays him to the hilt. The rest of the cast is good too, with Kaiulani Lee standing out as one of Stewart's employees, a quirky combination...
Though her only office was a spare bedroom and her only warehouse the closet, Kolbe wrote a catalogue and sent it to 3,500 teachers and parents. Orders began to trickle in, then to flow. The first years were hard. She bought a warehouse, and it caught fire. An employee embezzled money. She divorced her husband. "I never, never feel overwhelmed," Kolbe says, a little grimly. "I enjoy a challenge...
...breath? Dandruff? Body odor? Not quite. The latest wrinkle in self-improvement for men is skin care. It seems that after kidding the wife about all that goop she put on her face, some husbands were sneaking the stuff themselves. Now many men are coming out of the water closet and openly buying pricey new shave creams and such exotic accompaniments as toners, tightening masks, bronzers and even under-eye cream...
...homicidal teen angst that features this reflection on the mutability of contemporary existence: "Like takin' Carrie to the high school prom/ something's always goin' wrong." The Ramones are the philosopher kings of nerddom ("Every one's a secret nerd/ Every one's a closet lame"), the laureates of losers everywhere. They have no interest whatsoever in being cool, and for that alone may they always be blessed...