Word: closeting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Besides, any full-time movie lover is a closet Platonist. We believe that the truth is up there on the screen - that the shadows on the wall have more validity than the people who put them there. To her generations of fans, the real Bettie Page is that two-dimensional image, forever young, tender, sexy and smiling...
...1970s—seems appropriate. “Milk” shows us how far we have come, but also how far we still have to go. Harvey Milk, played by Oscar winner Sean Penn, is a man disturbed by the discrimination he experiences after coming out of the closet in New York City. Milk moves to San Francisco with his boyfriend, Scott Smith (James Franco). In California, the two become politically active, enlivening and inspiring the gay community to speak out against injustice. Throughout the film, Milk is shown making a recording, which he says should be played only...
...Well, you got elected in your sophomore year. First of all, the thrill of being accepted was true in the beginning. Over time, I became more and more a closet member and I thought of it less as being of any particular consequence...
...format, with a lascivious mix of interviews, fiction features, cartoons and narrative pieces surrounding the buxom centerfolds. But in its choice of images, Penthouse lacked Playboy's sexual subtlety. (Professional competition aside, Hef and Guccione actively disliked each other; while Guccione promoted the rumor that Hef was a "closet queen," the Playboy publisher, noting Guccione's cultivation of a similarly decadent lifestyle, remarked that "If I were he, I'd want to be me, too.") Larry Flynt's Hustler, founded in 1974, swung the pendulum even farther, gleefully relinquishing any claims to good taste...
...Some people think that once you leave your dorm in Harvard Yard, you’re too old or sophisticated to go to house parties. Maybe they think the cooler option is going to a final club party. Let me enlighten you on something: they are wrong (and probably closet house partiers anyway). Why make the drunken mistakes of your first week of freshman year just once? I know that doubling the maximum capacity of a triple in Winthrop and running out of alcohol in the first half hour is your idea of fun. The 80’s Dance...