Word: closeting
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...Members] can range [on one hand] from someone who is just out of the closet...[to] someone who is very out and confident with being out and confident with being out and wants to see us pursue a more progressive agenda," Sofen says...
...from a size 10 to a size 8, sometimes 6. Her stomach has been whittled; her hips have slimmed. She has the posture and lanky gait of a dancer. What she doesn't have is a diet, and her workout shoes--Pilates calls for socks only--sit in her closet, dusty. She's lost nearly 10 lbs. "People say to me, 'You look thinner,'" she marvels. "And I'm thinking, But I had that huge piece of chocolate cake last night...
...talked about the attack over and over again, sometimes remembering new fears and images that my mother and I had blocked out. A few days after the incident, I began to fear that my coach was hiding underneath my bed, in my closet or behind the shower curtain. One night I walked into my parents' room crying, too afraid to go to sleep. They comforted me, reassuring me that my fears were normal. Beginning that night, the three of us made rounds every day to check in all the scary places before I got into bed. Sometimes, I still like...
...rooms in the three-story "hotel" wing are identical--clean, simple and separate from the monks' cells. There is no telephone, carpet or television set, just a small wooden cross above a pine writing desk, a washbasin, a curtained closet, a small bed and a reading light. The bathrooms are at the end of the corridors. Guests are asked to keep their rooms and the bathrooms clean and to help with the dishes after each meal...
...hundreds of thousands of dollars just to run competitively. Months (and possibly even years) of flagrant solicitation just to keep your job is something few would want to endure. Further, in the age of "bimbo eruptions" and "I didn't inhale," skeletons seem eager to jump out of the closet at the slightest hint of public ambitions...