Word: closeting
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Melendez readily admits that has not always been his own best advertisement. "I'm still an extremely shy, insecure, socially inept person," he says. He is leaning back Lee Iacocca-style on a cushion in a closet-sized South House single, packed with electronic gimmickery, file cabinets, and impeccably stacked back copies of The Crimson, The Independent, The Salient, The Gazette, and the Harvard College Forum...
...Spader, who played the deliciously haughty preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part of himself," Sheedy says. It's a golden touch. Who wouldn't grab the chance to remake one's adolescence, in which the geek in one's closet now has the swagger of fearless charm, and a rock symphony swells in the parking lot on prom night? "I think he's still trying to be popular at school," says Jon Cryer, who played Duckie, the geeky dervish in Pretty in Pink. "And more power to him. I mean...
...over the next two years to Pittsburgh, New York City, Baltimore and New Orleans. Geisel, 82, whose latest best seller, You're Only Old Once!, is intended for youngsters of all ages, was more than pleased with the exhibition. "It finally gave me a chance to clean out my closet," he laughs. Now that is something to imagine, the spilling-all-over contents of the Seussian closet. Must be a book in there someplace...
...then persuades her husband to join her in getting matching short haircuts and a platinum-blond dye job. (Hemingway fans may recall that the Catherine of A Farewell to Arms also suggests twin coiffures but without the bleach.) Eventually, Catherine comes out of the closet on the arm of the dark, lovely and rich Marita...
...time, at least some of those with whom I have had occasion to speak about the subject feel the importance of bringing their whole selves through the door with them. It is hard to feel spiritually comfortable unless you feel genuinely accepted, by God and by your community. The closet is not an easy place in which to worship...