Word: closeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another idea: use sounding rockets to boost detection equipment up 100 miles, allowing a five-minute viewing window of the southern skies before falling back to earth. A third: "Everyone who has got an instrument in his closet is digging it out and petitioning NASA for support to go to Australia and fly it in a balloon," says Marvin Leventhal, a physicist with AT&T's Bell Labs. Leventhal and his collaborator Crawford MacCallum, a physicist with the Sandia Corp., already have their balloon, a plastic monster so huge (600 to 700 ft. tall) that its material could be used...
...tale of four such attempts by contemporary Americans to start all over again. FitzGerald's best chapters are the ones exploring the Castro and Sun City. We witness the excitement and joy of the gay community as social values relax enough so that they can "come out of the closet" and settle in one place--their place--to live and to start over. FitzGerald takes us into the life of their community, from its parades to costume balls. With her, we take part in their joyous spirit of release...
...Humanism will no longer be guaranteed a preferred position in American education," exulted Robert Skolrood, executive director of the National Legal Foundation, a group established by the television evangelist Pat Robertson that helped represent the plaintiff parents and teachers. "Humanism and its hidden agenda are now out of the closet...
...make matters worse, most of the plot elements of Remembrance seem lifted from a host of classic family dramas. There's sibling rivalry and some handy family skeletons in the closet a la O'Neill, and a web of family resentments that seem taken right out of Williams...
...cash- rich foreigners, most notably Arabs and Americans, and well-paid fugitives from the so-called "stockbroker belt" south of London who want to reduce the time they spend commuting to and from their offices in the city's revitalized financial district. An offer to buy the $60,000 closet was made by a woman who was weary of commuting to the capital from a bedroom exurb, but the wave of publicity caused her to withdraw her bid. Explained her real estate agent: "She is a very shy lady and wants to keep out of the public...