Word: closeting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recently released niche hit Latter Days, Sandvoss stars as an earnest Mormon missionary forced out of the closet when he falls in love with an L.A. gym queen. That day of the audition, his inexperience—both in Los Angeles and in film—worked in his favor...
...course, this is all wishful thinking. The Hatch Amendment most likely isn’t going anywhere; and there are probably too many skeletons in Arnold’s awfully big closet for him to mount any serious effort for the White House anyway. Arnold, however, shouldn’t be ignored...
...silk-charmeuse flapper coat--in 1999, when it became more difficult to find used designs from the 1920s and '30s in good condition. Today, the store sells mostly its (expanded) Trashy Diva line, with pieces that look as if they might have been plucked from Daisy Buchanan's closet...
...mileage reimbursement checks--"the money my husband never sees"--Angela (who, for obvious reasons, prefers not to be identified by her full name) has amassed wads of $10 and $20 bills. Her stash is shoved deep in the bottom of three extra purses she keeps in her bedroom closet. Current total...
...started stockpiling cash in the late 1990s, when the family business slumped. "There was a lot of tension, and I had seen some ugly divorces," she explains. so she began to stow $100 bills in an old pair of alligator shoes hidden under a pile of hats in a closet. Two years ago, when the family finances had stabilized, she told her husband about her stash. By then it was so large--$12,000--that she felt he should know about it in case anything happened to her. They agreed to put the money in the bank, earmarked...