Word: closeting
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...video-game market is in the midst of one of those awkward transitions it endures every five years or so, as the old game-playing systems get banished to the closet and new, more powerful ones take their place on the family TV. What is supposed to happen this year, according to the industry's timetable, is that the so-called 16-bit machines (like Sega's Genesis and Nintendo's Super NES) will be phased out in favor of machines that crunch data 32 or 64 bits at a time...
...recent poets I love most are James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich and Seamus Heaney. I learned a great deal from reading Merrill's poems; his is the influence I feel I must continually guard myself against, since I so completely love his poems. He said that the closet just disintegrated around him--that was a source of hope for me, especially since I already felt a natural affiniity for his voice and style. More so than with, say, Rich or Ginsberg, other gay poets...
...current crop, Mel has rearranged the lights and tried different containers. He began with 18 plants and is now down to one. Well, actually two. "There's another weird plant that's growing in there that isn't pot," Mel says. Compared to the forest in Johnny's closet, Mel's closet looks like it has been clearcut. Next to one sickly plant is a pencil, stuck in the soil "to support the plant so it won't tip over...
...spring break, probably the quietest it has been since September. Most undergraduates fled campus for sunny Jamaica or extravagant trips to Europe. But not all was quiet in the Yard during the last week of March. Within the depths of Sever Hall, with its long, dark corridor and tiny, closet-sized editing rooms, there was constant activity. Four senior VES concentrators spent their spring vacations splicing together clips of footage in order to complete their senior film theses. Ironically, outside of one of the small, windowless editing rooms, a sign is posted which reads, "Students should not live in editing...
...significant factor in the increase in bombings is that the dissemination of bomb know-how has become a minor industry. The past few decades have produced the rise of mail-order publishing companies that serve the so-called gun aftermarket, including the gun fanciers, survivalists, wannabe cops and closet anarchists who like to shop for such products as laser sights, camouflage, fake badges and fake fbi and atf hats. Some of their most popular offerings are "burn-and-blow'' books that describe in detail how to make landmines, booby traps and bombs. "The information is available on the Internet...