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...best, had attracted only three members of the party's power structure. That's something that would have been unheard of one or two conventions ago. And despite the protestations of ADA members attending, the handful of delegates was a sign that the liberals lived in the closet, if at all, during the '76 convention...
...writing courses. "I was intimidated. There were lots of talented people around." Until Ordinary People the only public recognition she had was winning 60th place in a contest of 100 small prizes offered by Writer's Digest for short stories in 1970. Still, she describes herself as a "closet writer" from the age of twelve: "I just didn't talk to anybody about it." She admits to writing "seriously" for six years, has two failed novels still at home, plus a clutter of short stories. "The novels all grew out of stories," she explains, "because...
...success of group invention does not mean that the lone tinkerer is extinct. Enormous obstacles-financial, administrative, legal-face the inventor who wants to set up a laboratory in a closet and create new concepts and gadgets. Still, the classic garret inventor has managed to survive. Edwin Link, inventor of the famed "Link trainer" for instrument flight, has managed to move out of aviation and into oceanography, and now explores the underwater world in a clear, bubble-shaped plastic submarine of his own design. William Lear, who has invented radios, airplanes and steam-powered vehicles, is now working with...
American landscape painting languished in the closet until quite recently. The impulse to record the primal shapes of land, vegetation, light, water and sky, enormously important to American art in the 19th century, was tagged throughout the 1960s as regressive, unmodernist, dumb-everything, in fact, that an acrylic stripe on unprimed duck could never be. Photography had taken care of landscape; one could leave it to the National Geographic...
...Governor's love of comfort hardly exceeds that of his predecessor, Horatio Sharpe, whose mansion, Whitehall, contains the only water closet in the Colonies...