Word: closeting
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...setting was Harry Parker's closet office in the Boathouse early last fall. And the subject, of course, was Harvard crew...
...Someone apparently threw an incendiary device through the back door into a junior's closet," causing flames like "a huge butane lighter," he said...
...environmental impresario's alternative choice to show "the glories of America in a patriotic and inspirational way": Vegas Lounge Lizard Wayne Newton, who is in his element crooning before gamblers clutching highballs and waitresses. Such undesirable Beach Boys fans as George Bush, Michael Deaver and Nancy Reagan (a closet B.B. groupie) thought Watt was out of tune and touch. The Great Conductor himself, Ronald Reagan, called Watt into the Oval Office for a brief musical seminar. Then the President presented him with a plaster statue of a foot with a bullet hole in it, symbolic of where Watt...
...Phil stood quivering and feverish in the living room, his loaded pistol pointed toward imaginary enemies he knew were lurking in the garage. Rita, emaciated like her husband, had her own bogeymen?strangers with X-ray vision outside the draped bedroom window?and she hid from them in the closet. The couple's paranoia was fleetingly sliced away, of course, as soon as they got high: they "free-based," breathing a distilled cocaine vapor, Phil alone all night with his glass water pipe and thimble of coke, Rita in another room with hers. In the mornings, Phil and Rita...
...moving the ball around at varying speeds. His shining eyes make it silly to ask if pitching is still fun for him, but he answers anyway. "It's more complicated than fun," he says, "more sophisticated than that. But fun, yes. I brought my slider out of the closet today, and I've been moving my sinker in and away. I feel good. There are puzzles to work out, but it's enjoyable work." He is a devotee of puzzles, particularly the crosswords in the New York Times, and has come across himself on occasion. "Bench...