Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Manjapra's roommate, Bobby V. Dyer '00, said he had left the door unlocked when he left the room, and returned after 2 a.m. to find it locked. Once inside, Dyer said he immediately noticed that his walkman was missing...
Other talking heads include gay personalities who are not identified with Hollywood, like Quentin Crisp and Susie Bright, contemporary straight actors like Tom Hanks and Susan Sarandon, and many overlapping figures, such as historian Richard Dyer, author Gore Vidal, and screenwriter Paul Rudnick. The heterosexual actors, for the most part, don't come off as well. Whoopi Goldberg and Sarandon radiate satisfaction with their own openmindedness, Hanks seems fairly happy-go-lucky both about his youthful homophobia and his recent embrace of a more sensitive persona. Harry Hamlin seems more perceptive than most, admitting his own tendency to question...
...gays went looking for kinship in any movie character who was artistic, flamboyant, wounded. They still do, and some of the subtextual readings in The Celluloid Closet result in eyestrain. "We know the Sal Mineo character in Rebel Without a Cause is gay," asserts British film historian Richard Dyer, "partly because he has a picture of Alan Ladd in his locker." Well, maybe Mineo was just...sensitive. But even if these interpretations are wrong, they are telling: they indicate how desperate some gays have been to find their reflection onscreen--even in code or in could-be, should-be wish...
...Dave D. Dyer, a University of Connecticut graduate student attending the rally, said a Dole presidency that advocates downsizing government and returning some power to the states, would create a government in line with the vision of the Founding Fathers...
...government's role to shape society," said Dyer...