Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movies, as commentators of every political stripe have noted, are a glamorous mirror of society. Growing up, we all find ourselves, in part, by finding aspects of ourselves onscreen. Gays didn't. "You feel like a ghost," essayist Susie Bright (author of Sexwise) says in The Celluloid Closet, "a ghost that nobody believes in." So 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...
...Even the ghost of A.J. Mleczko (no, she's not dead, just injured) got involved in the scoring punch. Junior defenseman Colleen Malek, returning from injury, wore Mleczko's number 21 and recorded an assist in Bowdoin's first collegiate goal...
...Tokyo--where dogs are rented by the hour and people eat green-tea tiramisu cake--with economical aplomb. Even better, he offsets such Tomorrowland aspects with lyrical images of Toshi's rural home, where women eat grilled eel while watching Audrey Hepburn and go looking for candleweed and ghost mushrooms. Toshi is as much a foreigner in Tokyo as any American might be, yet his two worlds are knit together with an exacting precision, with fishermen's nets "the color of dried persimmon," and an American's blanket having "the color of squid just pulled from the sea." Like Audrey...
...kind of cool, isn't it?" the ghost replied. "When you go to a same, you don't know what to expect. Isn't that what sports are about...
...Wily ghost," I thought aloud, you got me again...