Search Details

Word: closets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Like many lesbians and gays, Huffington found that the journey from the closet was long and difficult, but he's been hinting for some time. Last year he gave openly gay financial guru Andrew Tobias money to help produce Out of the Past, an award-winning documentary on gay history. (Tobias, an old Harvard chum, says he was the first person Huffington told about his sexuality, 26 years ago.) Tobias asked if he could include his friend's name in the film's credits, and Huffington consented. Three months ago, he also gave $140,000 to the University of Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Politician Comes Out | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

What's next for Huffington? After bottling up feelings for years, gay people often come bursting from the closet with a single-minded intensity (think Ellen) that can wear a bit thin. But consider the alternative: an unhappy, dishonest Huffington could have continued to run for major public office. Now that would have been a tragic tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Politician Comes Out | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...charges aren't true. But the voluminous notes the FBI kept on Sinatra make us wonder what we will have to look forward to when the current crop of celebrities bites the dust. Somewhere squirreled away in a Washington file cabinet lie the secrets in Dennis Rodman's closet; the dark mysteries of Celine Dion and the true story of Leonardo DiCaprio. Until those yellowed files to see the light of day, we can only speculate what, in the words of the FBI, "Association with Criminals and Hoodlums" our favorite stars may have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sinatra's Files See the Light of Day | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

Flynn emphasized that the recent origin andaccidental development of Christmas traditions canand must be rolled back, beginning with secularhumanists' emergence from the closet...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Speaks Out Against Christmas | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

...delivered a top-secret covert-action memo to Congress, but it smelled like a rehash of tired, old schemes, and the Senate Intelligence Committee bounced it. Instead, it backed the $97 million Iraq Liberation Act, an ambitious bill designed to bring support for anti-Saddam dissidents out of the closet and funnel money and guns to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Out Saddam | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Previous | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | Next