Word: closeting
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...gets freer and freer every year," says Bernie, a forty-something who takes a longer perspective. "And every year more and more guys come out of the closet. In Beijing and the big cities, you can see couples walking round the shopping malls holding hands. In the smaller cities some people are still underground, but even there, I hear it's getting better all the time...
...extracurricular spirit has persisted despite the campus presence of theater professionals. WHY BOTHER?But this situation has not always been seen as a negative one.Playwright Arthur L. Kopit ’59 , who wrote “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad,” which premiered at the Agassiz Theatre in 1960 before moving to Broadway, and which was also the first production mounted at Harvard’s New College Theatre, thinks the state of affairs for the past five...
...Harvard does have one distinct disadvantage: its housing. After the Crimson’s victory, I came home to Dunster and proudly hung up my Harvard hoodie. In the process, I scraped my elbow, as I do everyday, on the exposed metal hinges of the closet in my 1936 servant’s quarter. I rationalized the peeling paint by imagining that Al Franken ’73 (Dunster) lived here. And who cares if my window is too warped to open? It’s already winter in Cambridge...
...obdurate monarchist. But the next in line as head of Howard's conservative Liberal Party, Peter Costello, is a republican. The Australian Labor Party is republican through and through. It is only a matter of time before the less reactionary and nostalgic Liberal politicians can come out of the closet, and then Australian monarchy will be finished...
...even their employer is exploited: nagged by his parents, badgered by Fred, threatened with extinction by the Spacey character. The undercoat of sadness in Giamatti's performance has a number of explanation. Maybe it's because he read the script; or because as Richardson uncharitably reveals, "He's a closet eater." Or maybe Santa has heard the news about global warming, and is anxiously anticipates the North Pole's first snowless Christmas...