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...biggest disappointment of all came when the President bought his young daughter a closet full of Gucci pumps for his Inaugural Ball. "Hillary and I felt these were more suitable for our daughter's feet," he said. "We're not going to sacrifice our daughter's orthopedic development to make a political point...
SEBASTIAN VENABLE HAS DIED. BUT how? That is the question in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, Tennessee Williams' 1958 hothouse melodrama about prefrontal lobotomy, closet homosexuality and cannibalism. If the subject matter no longer shocks, the play itself can still thrill, given the right actors. In PBS's Great Performances presentation, it has them, mostly. Maggie Smith, as Sebastian's aloof, vindictive mother, and especially Natasha Richardson, as his possibly insane cousin, who was with him when he died, are superb adversaries, both of them informing Williams' lyrical dialogue with the rich emotional life it must have. Only Rob Lowe fails, more...
...years, IBM has lost share in market after market, including personal computers. But the massive cuts are mainly a signal that IBM is finally acknowledging a fundamental change in its core mainframe-computer business. For years, Big Blue has tried to ignore the market's shift away from the closet-size number crunchers to less expensive but powerful desktop computers and workstations. Now declining sales of mainframes have forced IBM to face up to the transition...
Reeves said his public acknowledgement of his sexual orientation, often referred to as "coming out of the closet," was first reported early this week by In News, a newspaper about the local gay community...
...truth, the everyday military experience is not likely to change much after the ban is lifted. Just because being gay will no longer be grounds for expulsion does not mean that every gay in the military will come out of the closet. Some will fear harassment; some will simply prefer discretion, the way gay civilians generally do. In all likelihood the vast majority of gays in uniform will keep their sexuality largely private. They will simply stop living in fear that someone may find out and cost them their future. Those who might wish to be flamboyant or confrontational would...