Word: closets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traitor." Others have called him "Jacques the Knife," and some cynical members of Giscard's Independent Republicans characterized the dramatic rally at which he launched his renamed party as "smacking of Nuremberg." Those who know Chirac well-including foreign diplomats-are positive he is no "closet fascist," though he is staunchly conservative. He is against nationalization and NATO, for free enterprise and French nationalism. He is a strong partisan of law-and-order and calls his military service in Algeria "the most exhilarating experience in my life...
...experience of her first period in the gym shower (as a high school senior, no less) in the opening scene. She cannot find relief from the mockery of her more sophisticated peers at home; a healthy dose of Scripture and a spell of confinement in a cell-like closet is the evangelist-mother's prescription...
HALSMAN: When I was fourteen, I discovered photography. Rummaging in my father's closet, I found a discarded 9 x 12 cm view camera. With my allowance money, I bought a dozen plates and photographed my sister near the window. I developed the plate in our bathroom by the light of a ruby-red bulb. It was one of the most magical moments of my life. In the dim red light I watched, wide-eyed, a miracle: the gradual appearance of dark outlines on the milky surface of my plate, forming the first photographic image I had taken. I became...
Reporters once looked forward to the day when they could poke around in the political skeleton closet of fundraising. Now that they've been given the opportunity, few have exercised it, succumbing to the old political trick of burying an investigator under a mass of data too big and diffuse to sort through. But only when the reporters and their editors take advantage of the disclosure laws--and take their notebooks and calculators into the campaign finance office--will there be any hope of sparking enough public outrage to spur the recalcitrant legislature into action. Contributors Against the Bottle Bill...
...office at Tampa the next afternoon, McKay had regained his poise. "I shouldn't have said those things. Bear Bryant, my best friend in coaching, says that after a bad loss you ought to stay in the closet for a week. I know Denver needed a win and maybe Ralston was saving his job by winning...