Word: closeting
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...Hasty Pudding theater last night, my anger at the comments being hurled past me and at the silence of the people around me, battled against a startling resurgence of the shame and fear that I often felt when in the closet. Part of me wanted nothing more than to be straight, to have the option to just laugh or sit silently by, knowing that the bigotry filling the room was not directed at me. Part of me hoped desperately that none of the people spewing these comments knew that...
...Coat: It's my mother's. During winter break, I was rummaging through her closet and found this among all these old wool pants and I thought it was so funny that my arms were too long for it. She's five-foot tall, she's tiny. But, I love the color and it functions well as a raincoat...
Bush's team devised a two-pronged strategy aimed at shoring up his image and conservative credentials while carpet-bombing McCain with attacks that portrayed the Arizonan as a hypocrite and a closet liberal. The first part of the plan would be carried out by Bush himself, who had a "wimp factor" to contend with. To allay post-New Hampshire doubts that he wasn't tough enough to go the distance, the Governor attacked McCain in a series of press conferences beginning just days after New Hampshire. Bush started out by calling McCain a Republican who took "Democrat" positions favored...
Tiny imperfections in an old painting found in a closet of a small West Newbury, Mass. church are hardly noticeable to an amateur...
...work hung in the choir stall of the All Saints Episcopal Church in West Newbury until about 20 years ago. It then found its way into a coat closet. Though church elders knew of the painting, they did not know of its value. So it collected dust...