Word: closetfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...royal family whose dignity has gone decidedly dingy, a garage sale, at first glance, might not be quite the thing. But that would be reckoning without the PR panache of Diana, Princess of Wales. Yanking 80 dresses in black tafetta, white chiffon and sheer frufru out of her closet to ring in $3.26 million at Christie's late Wednesday night for British and American AIDS and cancer charities may well prove one of the Princess' more gracious moves of late. Particularly given talk that ex-hubby Prince Charles had pushed to have the high-profile auction moved out of London...
DALLAS: America?s family entertainer defines family a tad too broadly, according to the 15-million member Southern Baptist Convention, which has decided to boycott Disney for its "gay friendly policies." Disney's worst offense? The decision to bring Ellen Degeneres' character out of the closet on the sitcom "Ellen," produced by Walt Disney Television and shown on Disney subsidiary ABC. Mouse Central is keeping mum. Last year, the Convention issued a warning to Disney about the evils of "Gay Days" at company theme parks and same-sex partner health benefits. Disney survived. Richard Land, executive director of the Southern...
...Wednesday afternoon, and Matt Drudge is speed-dialing. in 30 minutes, he's made 20 phone calls trying to nail down the latest hot tip. A national newsweekly, he's been told, is doing a cover story on yet another major TV personality coming out of the closet. If Drudge could have found anything even resembling confirmation, he would have run with it. One press of a key and--bang!--the item would have been broadcast to the 60,000 Internet users who receive his breathless E-mail bulletins (and to tens of thousands more who visit his Website). There...
...sick heart, searching for some sign of his family, when he saw his wife Virginia a few hundred feet up the street. She had taken refuge in the bathtub, been carried through the air and landed alive. In Cedar Park, Caryl and Joe Simpson hid in the utility closet of their home with their four sons and family dog. It was the only room left standing. Back in Jarrell, Ladonna Peterson, her son, niece and mother-in-law squeezed into a bathtub. "It got dark, black, and I saw the funnel cloud coming toward...
Librarians in Lamont report little undergraduate response to the publication's presence. Previously, Playboy had been sequestered in "the closet," which, according to Heather Cole, librarian of the Hilles and Lamont libraries, is typically used only for magazines with missing issues which are being held until they can be bound...