Word: closeting
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...Crimson shoved the memory of last year's tournament appearance--in which Harvard knocked off Yale, B.U. and Hartwick before falling to Duke, 3-1, in the Final Four--into a deep chest within a dark closet inside an abandoned house. Forgotten...
...Pulitzer Prize winning drama. Infanticide, self-multilation, heavy-drinking, cornhusking. One-hundred proof Halloween horror-potion. And who couldn't cuddle up to a play whose most quoted line is, "You ain't never seen a bitch eat her puppies?" Hello, my name is Sam Shepard. This is my closet. And these are my skeletons...
...trust memories? And why should a memory film -- this one, say -- be any more reliable than a dream newsreel? Flipping through the family album of his imagination, an indulgent author wants to forgive and embrace everyone. So he airbrushes the warts and sets any bedroom closet skeletons to dancing merrily. After all, the kids will be watching. He may also find that his fondness for vignettes ("Remember when Aunt Bea got squiffed and vamped the delivery boy?") undercuts the dramatic imperative to hold the anonymous viewer's attention. Private lives don't always play in public. Grandpa's % ripping yarn...
Romance on the run in Someone to Watch Over Me. -- Passion in the closet in Maurice. -- Yuppie in the nursery in Baby Boom...
...parents do a lot of the same things on their own, points out Pediatrician George Sterne of the Tulane Medical Center, such as bicycling their babies' legs or playing pat-a-cake when changing diapers. "Infants are going to exercise on their own unless you keep them in a closet," he notes. Older tots get ample exercise by fooling around in the backyard or climbing trees. Organized activities, child experts agree, should wait until about the age of six. "Our society is constantly pushing children to do things earlier and not letting them go at their own pace," cautions Marilyn...