Word: in-between
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...What if they pick up that I'm gay?" It was that fear and shame. I never felt like I belonged anywhere. I never felt like I belonged to the gay community, I never felt like I belonged to the straight community. I've really felt like this in-between. I watched the whole Gay Pride march in Washington in 1993, and I wept when I saw that. I mean I cried so hard, thinking, "I wish I could be there," because I never felt like I belonged anywhere...
...ever got anything and anywhere in this life. It is how he swallowed his pride as he and his family moved into the basement of his boyhood home so that oilmen could move in above them. How he came home from World War II not alive or dead but in-between, boxed and crated in a plaster cast, shot up in so many places that he was reduced at 21 to a second infancy, learning all over again how to walk, eat, dress himself with clip-on ties and laceless shoes. How he fought his way from county attorney...
...with two sitcoms. Nearly every move backfired. Murder, She Wrote (now on Thursdays) has dropped from ninth in the ratings to 59th; Sunday-night viewership has fallen 25% (60 Minutes has dropped from sixth place in the ratings to 13th); and not a single new show--young, old or in-between--has been...
...places: home or the workplace. But Seinfeld, the prototypical hang-out show, moved the genre into a third realm. Jerry and his friends have apartments and jobs (most of the time, anyway). But they deal with their embarrassing predicaments each week in a kind of in-between world: in halls and doorways, in the backseat of taxicabs, in a booth at the local coffee shop...
Lingerie designers haven't neglected men, either. The boxers-versus-briefs controversy finally has another option. Indecisive men can now buy the underwear Marky Mark models, which is somewhere in-between, but may look better if left in Marky Mark's closet...