Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nondescript house on the edge of Rock Creek Park. The house would do for a Texas Senator, but they could entertain only six or eight people at a time, and as their daughters, Lynda Bird (now 17) and Lucy Baines (14), grew up, the need for more room and closet space for all the L.B.J.s in the family became critical. And, as Vice President of the U.S., Lyndon felt the need of something a little more impressive...
Unfortunately, though, soccer is not played on paper, but in this case on a field which is considerably narrower than most in New England. "It's like playing in a closet," Coach Bruce Munro reported. Having played on a field all week, the Crimson flew to Philadelphia yesterday for an afternoon's practice on Penn's field...
...paintings a year, but she works almost compulsively from dawn to midnight. Asked why, she simply shrugs. "One must." She is extraordinarily shy. even in middle age; the story goes that when a delegation of women admirers called on her one day, she fled to a closet and hid there until they went away. Not true, says Vieira da Silva: "If there had been a closet, I would have hidden in it. Instead there was a dirty corridor full of junk, and I lay down there on the floor...
...Open Windows, and On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next. Last week in London, preparing for its presentation next fall in Manhattan, Kopit's first-professional production reached the stage: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling...
...finally decides the direction in which his future greatness lies. Her own occupation is measuring yachts, and she takes a lover who has a particularly impressive craft, only to spurn him with the philosophy that "life, Mr. Rose-above, is a husband hanging from a hook in the closet." The husband's corpse, in the end, falls out of the closet and across the bed where young Jonathan Rosepettle is strangling a seductive baby sitter...