Word: closeting
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...like Christmas morning. Artifacts were everywhere. On every piece of furniture and covering the floor--except for narrow pathways--under beds, in every nook and cranny, and closets.... I especially remember one large walk-in closet... which was filled to the height of 3 or 4 feet with a vast tangle of metal: dozens of kettles, musket barrels, wire, every conceivable type of iron artifact...
...supervisors automatically succeeded him as mayor. She later won election in her own right. Milk, the self-styled "mayor of Castro Street" (the center of San Francisco's major homosexual district), became a martyred pioneer of gay politics and a recognized trail blazer of the out-of-the-closet activism that is now both a force and a fashion in the city. Another legacy of the killings: a possible parole for Daniel James White, 37, the former city supervisor who murdered Moscone and Milk. During White's controversial 1979 trial, his attorney pursued the so-called Twinkies defense...
...good girl" and had an affair with Alex. Sam (Tom Berenger), once a Movement rhetorician, went to Hollywood and became the macho private eye in a hit TV series, which one of his pals describes as "a sitcom with a machete." Karen (JoBeth Williams), who used to be a closet poet, is now the restless wife of an ad executive. Michael (Jeff Goldblum) made Alex famous by writing about him in the Michigan Daily; now he profiles 14-year-old blind baton twirlers for PEOPLE and tries vainly to assign himself a story on the lost hope he sees around...
Richard Scifeddine '87 recalled a four-inch-long cockroach he found in the closet of one Yard room. Despite a thorough dousing with various industrial-strength chemicals, the bug scurried away into a crevice...
...from combat fatigues to tailored shirts. The current dress-for-success fad demands conservative suits for the office, and designers such as Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren create unstructured blazers and oversized jackets for the more stylish. Just when it seemed that there was nothing left in the masculine closet to imitate, Designer Calvin Klein has made a new raid: women's underwear boldly based on men's models. Women's Wear Daily is declaring it a hit. The collection, predicts the paper, will be "the hottest look in women's lingerie since the bikini brief...