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Bowie?who has undertaken boxing and martial arts instruction to let off steam and claims to sooth nerves and ears listening to Polish and "Chinese Communist music"?is still bedeviled by those old interviews in which he rushed giddily out of the closet. He speaks of them now as the major miscalculation of his career, claiming he was never gay, bisexual, a transvestite or any selection of the above. Says he: "I was so young then. I was experimenting." He may be more at peace now, but no one is suggesting that complete equanimity comes from perfect equilibrium. Thoroughly...
...some frigid day in February, all the officials closet themselves together to study 20 different piles of folders to "make tentative assessments," Fitzsimmons says, adding that in the first week of April, all 12 groups merge. They then proceed to admit all the students they want, pretending there is no limit to how many they can take Finally, on the frantic Saturday before acceptance letters go out, the number has to be pared down to a skeletal 2000 or so This year, 90 students had to be removed from the accepted list on that last day, Fitzsimmons says During these...
...Broadway producers fleeing. Homosexuals have long been a vital part of the theater, of course-Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Tennessee Williams come immediately to mind-and it can be argued that much of Broadway is infused with a gay sensibility. But never before has an out-of-the-closet play like Torch Song done so well with straight, middle-class audiences. For 3 hours and 40 minutes they enter into the life of Arnold Beckoff, who makes his living performing as a drag queen in a New York City nightclub. He falls in love with a schoolteacher, loses...
...solidarity. "Their heritage was in their hearts," he says, munching dates and fiddling with worry beads. "But they kept it in the closet." The recent immigrants, displaced by the 1975-76 Lebanese civil war and its aftermath, tend to be Moslem rather than Christian. Says Vicki Tamoush of the National Association of Arab Americans: "Among these people, there is a much greater effort to instill a sense of Arabism in their children...
...getting antsy. The Palm Springs spread is, like Disneyland, made to be toured, and Hope is soon whisking the visitor over his domain, stopping one minute to show off a photo of George Patton urinating into the Rhine, and in the next parading the wonders of his clothes closet, a room about the size of a C.E.O.'s office. There are a wall of shoes and long racks of blazers, slacks and other 19th-hole formal wear. "I wear them all," says Hope, solemnly fondling a pair of dark-green trousers covered with small mistletoe emblems. "I wear these...