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...recently divorced, along with homosexuals newly out of the closet, use the ads to find quick action. Senior citizens, the handicapped ("I walk with a cane") and those with concerns ("SWM . . . seeks WF WITHOUT HERPES") can come right to the point without hours of social jousting. Once the natural home of kinks and losers, the classified personals now attract people known to advertisers as "upscale." Even the Village Voice, which handles about 50,000 replies to love personals each year, says its audience is "mid-30s, affluent, with many professionals...
...Corleone take his cold-dish revenge. E.T. gives its viewers more, from less. Here is a fairy tale set in the most mundane of contemporary realities: a typical California suburb. The creature appears to his friend Elliott in a pizza-strewn back yard; he lives in a child's closet. As E.T. built his "phone home" device from old toys and household castaways, so Spielberg fashioned a dream world from the Formica-and-vinyl tatters of the American dream...
...Officially, the commission consists of eight Republicans and seven Democrats. But five of the Democrats regard the other two as closet Republicans. Those two: National Association of Manufacturers President Alexander B. Trowbridge and former Louisiana Congressman Joe D. Waggonner...
...fighting. There are important initiatives that the government must continue in order to address the economic, social, and physical suffering the vets have encountered as a result of their service, but just as important is that the veterans and their families be able to come out of the closet and claim the pride they deserve for their efforts and the efforts of their 57,939 colleagues who never returned...
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 68, is said to be a witty conversationalist, a bibliophile, a connoisseur of modern art?a kind of "closet liberal." He also happens to be the former boss of the world's most powerful, and possibly most feared, police organization...