Word: closets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wound up being locked in the closet," Gergensaid
...TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon says that the other dress -- indeed, dresses -- was no canard. A slew of them, including the black one, was packed up by prosecutors after that first unfruitful closet search. (The blue dress, you'll recall, had been stashed at Monica's mother's.) And several did have suspicious-looking stains on the front, which were subsequently tested by the FBI. The result, says Shannon, was anticlimactic: "Apparently, Monica was a sloppy eater." So it seems Monica's wardrobe could lead in two directions: to the White House or the Golden Arches...
Kieslowski and his gifted screenwriting colleague, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, knew that drama begins with the human face; it is a sponge for the viewer's emotional complicity. So the camera takes closeup mug shots of faces in love or anxiety. Or it crouches furtively, behind a tree, in a closet like a fretful nephew or an avid voyeur. It watches ordinary people (including some of the most beautiful actresses in Europe) tangling with moral demons, holding on to what they were taught to believe or--this being real life in Poland just after martial law--what they have learned to settle...
...here's the secret: the best punk bands are, underneath everything, closet romantics. They're in love with the loveless, the outcasts, the unredeemed; they have aching hearts, but from the perspective of a true punk, it seems false and foolish to sing openly of love in such a sullied world. So tender emotions are hidden, which makes their hearts ache all the more. The Clash's album London Calling contained one of rock's best love songs, Train in Vain, but it was hidden away, buried as an unlisted track. On this album the song Corazon de Oro gives...
...keep and bear arms" is a slide down the slope of totalitarianism? N.R.A. opponents suggest it is convenient for the group to try to drown out the clamor against handguns by changing the subject. But to Heston, who quips that "in Hollywood there are more gun owners in the closet than homosexuals," the cultural war is all of a piece with the war against guns. "We seem to be unloosening and unraveling as a nation," he says...