Word: closeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shelter consists of a dormitory with mattresses, plus kitchen, dining room, recreation room, and bathrooms. One closet is full of donated winter clothing and boots, which any guest may take...
...Reed, who in the age of the legendary dead and dying has the misfortune of being alive and kicking. A misfortune only because, in the tradition of felines and rock stars, Lou Reed must have nine lives. Nine distinct incarnations ranging from junkie to jogger, from wife-beating closet queen to affectionate husband, from Velvet Underground frontman to the man on the Honda scooter who won't settle for just walking. And he's had to watch his various lives fold and unfold in the public eye to varying degrees of interest. But worse than that, pardon the melodrama, probably...
...road to the other. I could see lampposts and buildings swaying. People began to run, but they didn't know where to go. It was terrible." Arturo Cholula, 40, was getting dressed for his day's duty as a navy ensign. "I started to fall, and my closet came toward me. I felt like a drunk...
...Isaacson supervised the project. Says he: "It was important to amass as much research as possible. Black-on-black violence is a very sensitive subject, one that black leaders are only now willing to talk about." White agrees: "I thought it was time to bring it out of the closet. It's time, long past time, for the killing to stop...
...wait is over. Garrison Keillor, self-effacing fabulist, closet sociologist and "America's Tallest Radio Humorist," has written the history of "the little town that time forgot and that the decades cannot improve." His affectionate sketches provide a full granary of bemused narratives about favorite Wobegonians, including Father Emil, who blesses animals on the lawn of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Church; the Statue of the Unknown Norwegian, which sprouts grass from an unusual place; and Angler Dr. Nute, a retired dentist who tells the sunfish, "Open wide . . . This may sting a little...