Word: greenleaf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pounds, Brad Soltis put up a great fight against senior Bob Greenleaf, bringing the match to 4-4 in the third period to send it to overtime, before falling...
Truly manly men do not dance. Howard Brackett knows this is so; he just heard it from a stern voice on a self-help tape. Yet Howard, a respectable English teacher in idyllic Greenleaf, Ind., can't stop the music in his feet. On the disco dance floor of his living room, Howard is the star, with supercool terping that recalls Travolta, Tommy Tune and a little Ann Miller. A dance solo like this is the stuff star careers are made of. Kevin Kline may never reach Cruisean heights, but this old boy can still bust a move...
...make light of them and show that hey, they're no big deal; the whole point is that none of this should be such a big deal, but is made to be. There's no edge, no grit: it's the sanitized, homogenized Hollywood comic vision of a Greenleaf, Indiana, learning to accept gays, if not to be perfectly politically correct about them. "In & Out" isn't particularly subtle or inventive, but it's shrewd enough to be a comedy about homosexuality that won't make most heterosexuals uncomfortable...
Inspired by Tom Hanks' teary-eyed tribute to a gay high school drama teacher upon receiving the Best Actor Oscar for "Philadelphia," "In & Out" explores the comic potential of the impact of such an event on small-town America-in this case, the "great BIG small town" of Greenleaf, Indiana. The twist is that the teacher in question, Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) refuses to admit he's gay, and what's more, is virtually on the eve of his marriage to a fellow schoolteacher (Joan Cusack). Nonetheless, despite his protestations, he's immediately confronted with throngs of reporters and townsfolk...
...Robert W. Greenleaf, M.D., of Boston, published The Diet of Harvard Students, a comprehensive review of where and what Harvard students were eating. His poll indicated a variety of places at which University students and affiliates took their meals. Many students ate at Cambridge restaurants or in their places of residence (at the time, many students lived in local boarding houses which were not University-sponsored...