Word: closeting
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...being in the closet is old-fashioned, it's also profoundly destabilizing. In a forthcoming paper in Psychological Bulletin, John Pachankis of Stony Brook University cites studies showing that concealing a nonheterosexual orientation is associated with more emotional distress and depression than disclosing the truth. There's even evidence that cloaking your identity can impair your physical health. Which makes sense: it's surely stressful to allow others to define you all your life. "Being gay and closeted doesn't guarantee that you'll do things you shouldn't do, but it increases the likelihood that you might," Representative Barney...
...Alex Trebek. According to Petri, Trebek is “more awkward in actual life” than he appears on television. She recalls this enigmatic gem: “Buddha got his enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree, but I get my enlightenment under the clothes tree, in my closet. I go in my closet, and come out of the closet,” said Trebek, according to Petri...
...Foley's side is presented by this windy, unusually blunt press conference from his lawyer, who told reporters that Foley was both a victim of sexual abuse and that he is a gay man as well as a "closet alcoholic." Finally, one former page goes to O'Reilly with his story about Foley contacting him via IM (where it got "quickly" sexual) soon after he left the program. Another former page has put up an informational website and welcomes questions. Though probably not "that kind...
...STOP INCLUDING HIM IN THIS COLUMN AS SOON AS HE STOPS GIVING US MATERIAL Apparently, George Allen is Jewish. But not that Jewish. Soon after his mother says it is O.K. to emerge from the goy closet, the Republican Senator from Virginia tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "I still had a ham sandwich for lunch...
...want tounderstand theAmerican attitudetoward capitalism, look inside your hall closet. There's probably a Monopoly game in there somewhere. Monopoly is the most popular board game in history, with more than 250 million copies sold. You may never have taken a real estate seminar or cracked an economics textbook. But if you grew up in an American home, and at some point it rained, you played Monopoly...