Word: closets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, he said closet homosexuals maywant to contribute to a newsgroup discussion onsexuality without revealing their identity
...your monster drawings inspired by childhood fears? When you were younger did you imagine that you had monsters in your closet...
...tells you how far rightward the G.O.P. has tilted. Until now, no one has challenged Dole's conservatism. However, evidence of Dole's compassion--his support for school lunches, food stamps and AIDS research, for example--is cited by his opponents as proof that he is a closet moderate, which for many hard-core conservatives is akin to saying he's a socialist. If Dole were truly the leader he claims to be, he would be seeking to bring the G.O.P. back to his brand of pragmatism, the kind of Republicanism that flourished before Ronald Reagan. Instead, Dole is slavishly...
Unfortunately, many of the film's other characters are merely cardboard props that pop up at convenient times: Evie's closet sensitive boyfriend, her shallow in-group friends, Randy's family, her timid gay-guy friend and her aunt, a grump who snaps at everyone in the house like Archie Bunker with...
...else would be singing, but that didn't matter. She gazed at a pair of landscapes on her wall--moody paintings of a squall blowing a shaft of rain across the desert--by Peter Hurd, a LIFE artist during World War II. The canvases "were just found in a closet, years and years ago," Felsher says. What would have happened had no one been there to protect them? Happily for us, Elaine...