Word: closets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filming in Rome," she recalled. Not so Director Manfred Purzer, who quickly ordered his star to buy a pair of snakeskin boots. However, the footwear footage ended up on the cutting-room floor, and the $700 Italian boots were consigned to a far corner of Elke's closet...
...capitalist society's turf and win. In "Reflections of a Wild Kid," Michaels's persona makes it with an ex-girlfriend by removing the woman's present boyfriend, a nerdish college professor. The persona's method: piss out the window of the woman's apartment, hide in the closet and let the police seize the wrong man--the boyfriend--when they come around. Michaels describes this as "genius...
When Eric L. Davin ran for the school committee two years ago, he was a "closet socialist." Now he's running for the city council on the Cambridge Convention slate, but this time is an "out-front" socialist, trying to promote radical change...
...nearly fa tal. Within months of its creation, Pak istan's checks are bouncing. Shaken by his awesome difficulties, Nehru asks Mountbatten to take secret control of the country once again. The irony is crushing: the last English viceroy also has to serve as India's closet king...
When Hans Berlin, 49, resigned as managing editor of Molden, one of Germany's largest publishing houses, he wanted to write a novel about Nazi skeletons in the national closet. With questionable taste, he also hoped to make it "entertaining." The result is this slick, ambiguous thriller. Hans Pikola, 50-year-old world-weary photographer turned hit man, stalks the even more world-weary war criminal, Karl Boettcher. The motive, revealed through flashbacks, provides romantic interest, undertones of incest-plus a gloss of social commentary in the form of industrial conspiracy in a Krupp-like organization. Result: a first...