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Word: closets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finds that Marcie's fortune is derived from sweated labor in Hong Kong, he calls it a day, moves back to Boston, takes over the family enterprises and finds that Oliver III, from whom he had rebelled in Love Story, has been, beneath that stuffed shirt, a closet liberal all along. But have no fear. The revelation is not enough to make Ollie IV happy, and as this fairy story for depressives ends in December 1976, he is as miserable as ever, working hard, jogging along the Charles and still mourning over Jenny. The lover of decent prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Woe Revisited | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...been dying to see the skeletons in Harvard's closet, the Museum of Comparitve Zoology has dragged out a few that are 30 feet long and a few hundred million years old and propped them up in a new exhibit dedicated to children and bone lovers everywhere...

Author: By Marcela L. Davison, | Title: Zoology Museum Exhibition Picks Old Bones | 3/5/1977 | See Source »

...Yeah," says tennis captain Dan Waldman, "he's a closet philosopher who's concerned with inner tennis and all that stuff, which I think is off the wall...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Big Fish in a Big Pond | 2/18/1977 | See Source »

...locked doors, a Bergman set is a calm and quiet place of intense concentration. "On the first day of shooting," reports Carradine, "Ingmar walked me through the scene where I discover my brother's dead body. To dramatize my dazed condition, I was ordered to walk into a closet and sit down. That's when I realized I was in a Bergman picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Day on the Bergmanstrasse | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...textures of her silks and satins, the perfume from her furs. He wrote of "the green paradise of infant love," defining genius as "childhood rediscovered at will." Underneath the mask of decadence, the prematurely aging face with its repertoire of grimaces, was a youth of retarded innocence, a closet Dorian Gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatomy of Addiction | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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