Word: closetfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large, lesbians and gay men do not speak up. Despite a vocal, privileged and empowered minority of lesbians and gay men in status positions, most lesbians and gay men choose to hide their sexual preference. They do so because they feel that, if they "come out of the closet," they will suffer institutional and personal attacks more than they already...
...concern for waterlogged residents: a flotilla of water moccasins in the flood tides. "Snakes are trying to find a dry piece of ground, just like everyone else," said Greg McWhorter of Alabama's emergency-management agency. "They'll settle up in the top part of your closet. We're warning people to be on the alert...
...Andy Hardy for the '90s: a scheming innocent, ever wavering between girlfriends, ever scampering away from trouble and smack into worse. With his impish, Darryl Strawberry-size grin and an 8-in.-high flattop haircut that looks like a pillbox hat out of Zsa Zsa's closet, Kid (Christopher Reid) swipes audience sympathy from the get-go. Now he sits in the principal's office after a cafeteria fight with evil dude Stab (Paul Anthony). Seems Stab has branded Kid's dead mother a whore. The white principal is befuddled. "Why in God's name," she asks the perp...
This modernized, seemingly low-budget Comedy of Errors, thanks to the cast, can be best described as enthusiastic. The jarringly bad costumes and set certainly do not impress. The outfits look like dress-up clothes found in the back of a closet. The police officers inexplicably look like Hell's Angel rejects and the hookers look like Barbie dolls. Minimalist crepe-paper palm trees and a funky beaded curtain litter the stage. A God-only-knows-why velvet Elvis painting completes the perfect tackiness of the scene in the Leverett Old Library. But the acting is good enough to compensate...
...lunch in late May and there gave me a list of people to look up in England; he knew everyone there. During dessert, I remarked with a chuckle that the University was having trouble finding a place for me at Oxford and would probably stick me in a broom closet. My comment evoked what I took to be an insignificant "oh, really...