Word: closets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just as the argument about gays in the military was putting the gay cause at center stage for the first time in U.S. history. With its aggressive scorn for Ronald Reagan and Republicanism; for Mormons and moralizing; and its demonic view of lawyer- dealmaker Roy Cohn, a gay-bashing closet gay and a top-level G.O.P. influence peddler for more than three decades, Angels disproved truisms about the unmarketability of political drama. Instead it compellingly reasserted the theater's place in public debate. Hearteningly to theater partisans, Angels generated excitement about a drama comparable to the biggest buzz about musicals...
...acknowledge that forgetting something does not erase it, and years do not smooth the pain of buried memories. We forget things all the time; this doesn't mean they didn't happen. Suppose you went sledding with some friends last Christmas. You might not remember until you clean your closet and uncover the snowpants you wore, or until someone asks whether you had been sledding lately...
...takes enormous resilience, determination and courage (both for the patient and for people closet to her) in order to seek obtain and carry through on treatments; there are often false starts (unhelpful medications, useless therapists, etc.) and tough times ahead before improvement occurs...
This is a closet drama, but the closet has a window with a view of the sea. In an early scene Ada comes to the beach and finds her piano in a crate. Opening it, she plays ecstatically; her daughter dances gaily, garlanded in seaweed; and Baines gets a first inkling of the lifeline that art is for Ada. The camera ascends to Campion's favorite bird's-eye view to reveal a huge sea horse magically sculpted from sand and shells. Life, this beautiful image suggests, is a pattern we cannot see, except through the artist's Olympian...
While in school, Yale students say they work and party hard. First-year Sarah Morton reports that "if you look for a social life, you can find it." Morton added that Yale has its share of "closet nerds," people she said pretend not to study, but cram all they...