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...stripped of that power." There are now all kinds of places to turn to. Rape treatment clinics, shelters for battered wives, and centers for abused children have sprung up across the country. Legal procedures appear to have made prosecution easier. The problems are coming out of the closet in surprising places: in the small Plains city of Salina (pop. 42,600), the Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas gets around 100 "crisis calls" a month...
...whom is a transvestite. Last year's Torch Song Trilogy, by Harvey Fierstein, was the first gay play to make it on Broadway, and La Cage, for which Fierstein wrote the book, seems almost certain to become the first successful gay musical. Broadway is out of the closet and has slammed the door behind...
Beginning with a video scrapbook, the hour recapitulates the dramatic highlights of An American Family: an icy Pat Loud informing her philandering husband Bill that she wants a divorce, and the eldest son Lance, flamboyantly sashaying out of the closet, bedizened in silk scarves and blue lipstick...
Perhaps the one trait that makes both men and women distinctively Japanese is their extreme deference to the harmony of the group. Says Author and Feminist Yumiko Yansson, explaining why Japanese women remain mostly kakure feministo (closet feminists), despite their increasing discontent: " 'Resignation is the first lesson of life,' the saying goes. In Japan, rebellion means being an outsider...
Studds, regarded by many House colleagues as a most effective member of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, says he will "of course" serve out his term. In fact, many of his constituents seemed surprisingly supportive last week. Said Boston Political Consultant Michael Goldman: "Now that he is out of the closet, he could become even more effective." The prospects are less clear for Crane, the brother of Illinois Representative Philip Crane, who sought the 1980 G.O.P. presidential nomination. "This does not fit the image Dan Crane has tried to portray," says Danville Lawyer Tom Lindley. "This makes it less likely...