Word: closeting
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...your home isn't selling, or you'd like to get more for it than the market seems ready to bear, consider investing in some upgrade projects. Letsrenovate.com, Doityourself.com and Hgtv.com can be useful in redoing a kitchen, bathroom or closet, for instance, to boost the price of your home. Before launching a major endeavor, though, it's worth getting some independent input on whether the upgrade will actually boost your home's value. Remodeling Magazine has a handy guide with cost-to-value assessments for whatever changes you're contemplating...
...most memorable portraits of any character yet seen in this medium, Bechdel paints her father as a classic "closet case." An obsessive home decorator and control freak, he challenges any gender non-conformity he discovers in his children, for example making the young Alison, whose playground nickname is "butch," wear a barrette when she doesn't want to. He also runs the family business, a funeral home, which gives the book its snarky double-entendre title. Far from fun, thanks chiefly to the father's quashing of all affections lest the "bad" one be exposed, Bechdel compares her home life...
...Habermas and Drosophila genes; this intensity has been expressed in scenes of sheer outrageousness that rival even the best Harvard party. There are the traditional acts of sexual promiscuity, as any browser of Craigslist can see. For the lucky few who do find a match, a lockable storage closet on the second floor has made the study break even easier. And when not used for DVD storage or stress release, the closet has been transformed by a dedicated group of Lamonters into a space for late-night cheese soirees. But as papers and exams have compounded in recent weeks, these...
...investigators have found that up to two dozen Iraqis died, including eight men who had earlier been described by military sources in Iraq as enemy combatants. As TIME reported earlier, eyewitnesses cast doubt on the military's claim, saying four of the Iraqis had been pushed into a closet, then shot. Military sources deny the victims had been in a closet and said one had had a gun while another had "seemed" to be reaching...
Here's why they're after me: I have made a lifestyle choice that they can't stand, and I'm not cowering in the closet because of it. I'm out, and I'm proud. I am a happy member of an exceedingly "traditional" family. I'm in charge of the house and the kids, my husband is in charge of the finances and the car maintenance, and we all go to church every Sunday. This month Little, Brown published a collection of my essays about family life called To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner...