Word: closets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need any new suits for the rest of my life," Bush claims, surveying his high-tech closet, which holds about 25 dark ensembles from his White House days. He polishes his own shoes and cowboy boots, taking pride in a collection of special creams and pastes and an electric buffer, which he brandishes like a weapon. He knows all the kitchen gadgets, cleans up the dishes, measures his vodka martinis by eye. Barbara's passion is a special wrapping room with ribbon and paper holders for the endless stream of birthdays that confront them. The walls and tables...
After you've dug your swimsuit out of the bottom of your closet and proclaimed to anyone within earshot that you are going to come back with a tan, you might start to think about the place you are going to visit. Do you need a visa? What's the drinking age? Are American condoms readily available? This will not be, after all, a mind-broadening, different-lifestyle-experiencing, cultural trip. It will be hot and seething with alcohol and debauchery...
There was a space for Playboy on the periodical shelf at Lamont, but it was empty. Deeply saddened, I inquired of Ed P. Tallent, the reference librarian, who led me to a locked closet in the back of the periodical section...
...someone wants to look at something from the closet, we take their ID, but we never question them," Tallent said...
...only real evidence Tucker presents to support his title is the fact that we haven't brought a campus minister out of the closet lately...