Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advertiser cavils. Indeed, there's so much cachet in being gay that even straight characters are trying it. On Fox's Action, scheming movie producer Peter Dragon received oral sex from a star to whom he passed himself off as gay, and in what promises to be a head-turning second episode of Fox's Ally McBeal on Nov. 1, Ally engages in steamy lip-wrestling with another woman...
...after receiving complaints about gay bashing). ABC's Oh Grow Up and Wasteland feature gay leads with actual, if tentative, love lives (Ford, a lawyer who's just left his marriage, and Russell, a closeted soap actor). Action has two gay regulars; one is Bobby G., a ruthless studio head whose massive male endowment symbolizes his show-biz power and the hetero fear of gay sexuality (literally striking dumb straight men who witness...
...follow this spirited skeptic as she looks at lightning head on (in a lighthouse), escapes to sea on a whaling ship (dressed, in Shakespearean fashion, as a boy) and takes Captain Ahab (who has the "mien of a weathered god") to her bed. Naslund is helping us, of course, to see the all-male world of Moby Dick through more compassionate eyes, and its protagonist as he might be glimpsed through "pity's tears." Yet what is remarkable here is not the revisionism. Naslund, author of four much smaller works of fiction, actually matches the master, Melville...
...something we were not. With Wilt, there was always a lot of bravado on the outside, but he was basically a bright, pretty shy guy with whom I could share a conversation and a good laugh. We could always be ourselves with each other. Once we were going head to head in the NBA, everyone wanted to make it seem as though Wilt and I were enemies. That was far from reality. The older we got, the more we liked each other. Through the years I was always pleased when I'd answer the phone and hear, "Hello, Felton, this...
Senior Zach Wood is still trying to get his head around the prospect of his dad's wedding tomorrow. At this point he says he's "cool with it." He is sitting with a friend who is trying to convince him that he should not take next year off. "College is good. Go to college," she implores. He tells her, "I'm going to junior college because I have no idea what I want to do, and I refuse to pay a four-year college tuition when I could pay a fraction of that and figure out what I want...