Word: closeting
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...forsaking God for Mammon, but is seeking to fill that vacuum and lead the religious right to the promised land of real electoral power. Yes, Reed built the coalition into a prominent faction within the party, but as a nonprofit advocacy group, it was barred from out-of-the-closet electioneering. It also proved frustratingly ineffective in influencing postelection governance. Reed's ambitious corrective: while keeping a seat on the Christian Coalition's board, he will launch a political consulting firm, Century Strategies, that will bring forth candidates who adhere to the movement's principles and also have wider appeal...
Which is putting it mildly. Blair isn't as publicly empathetic as Clinton, but as he demonstrated in late March, he is equally deft. The Tories had claimed "proof" that Blair was secretly planning to restore union power once in office. For many in Britain, calling someone a closet union lover is like saying in the U.S. that someone is soft on crime. Thatcher rode to Downing Street on a promise to curb union influence. If it worked for the Iron Lady, Major's camp figured, why not try it again? Trouble is, Blair's view that employees should...
Every family has its skeletons in the closet. Every man has his weakness. For some it is lasagna, for others it is all things chocolate. My downfall is frozen dairy products. Ice cream is my favorite food group. It is to me as ambrosia was to the Roman deities. Had I been Eve, man would never have been evicted from the Garden of Eden. Fruit doesn't do anything for me. However, had the snake tempted me with an ice cream sundae, I would have been a goner--even if the Garden had had a polar address...
Lider-Johnson also believes that "there are a lot of closet poets here," students who do write poetry but keep it a private matter. Though Etienne Benson '99, poetry editor of the Advocate, is more pessimistic about the actual number of student poets on campus, the numbers he provided suggests that there are some out there. While an average issue of the Advocate receives submissions from no more than "15 or 20" people, this spring's contest issue, closed to Advocate members, received submissions from "about 50 people...with an average of two or three poems per person." That...
...hate that term 'in the closet,'" says Ellen DeGeneres, the aforementioned sitcom star whose all-pants wardrobe and sometimes awkward chemistry with male ingenues was provoking curiosity from fans and reporters long before her sexuality became a minor national obsession. "Until recently I hated the word lesbian too," she continues. "I've said it enough now that it doesn't bother me. But lesbian sounded like somebody with some kind of disease. I didn't like that, so I used the word gay more often...