Word: closets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suburban Los Angeles, "has really frightened me. There's this tremendous emphasis on materialism. And of course the violence." Mrs. Jan Rogers of Tallahassee, a mother of two young children, feels the same way. Eighteen months ago, she "just unplugged the damn thing and put it into the closet." She is particularly happy, she says, to be free of the bombardment of all those commercials...
...particular occasion really go together. Designer Sant'Angelo goes Chessie one better by inviting girls over to his apartment for dressing-for-the-party parties. The girls swap clothes freely, creating costumes for each other and parading around like little children turned loose in a grownup's closet. Sometimes, the designer admits sheepishly, they get so carried away with dressing that they never make the party...
...Black in Biafra, so weary of being sounded in the subways by black eyes, so despairing of the smell of booze and pot and used-up hope in bloodshot eyes of Negroes bombed at noon, that he must have become in some secret part of his flesh a closet Republican-how else account for his inner 'Yeah man, yeah, go' when fat and flatulent old Republicans got up in Convention Hall to deliver platitudes on the need to return to individual human effort?" Mailer's only second thought was a postscript remark that he "would probably...
...Sorry, I got a closet full...
Eight months ago, Burt's parents stumbled on four "bricks" (each a compressed kilo) of marijuana hidden in his bedroom closet. "What the hell is this?" demanded Burt's father. "Stuff, of course," answered Burt, nonchalantly adding that he had been taking pot ever since he arrived in California...