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...sure, gay life here can be lonesome. Wyoming is thought to be the only state without a gay bar. While traveling here, I met a blond, lanky 22-year-old hair stylist whose mother had thrown him out for being gay. I met a man whose boyfriend committed suicide in despair, and I met a lesbian couple who have lived in the same Casper home for 21 years and yet have never spoken openly with the neighbors about their love for each other. Instead, they let people think they are just roommates. Wyoming has constructed an entire culture around...
Fallows expressed surprise that anyone would be “thrown into a tizzy by one page” in the magazine...
...girth. Fortunately, the producers of School of Rock have forged an ideal vehicle for Black’s brand of mischief, and with a sturdy cast and script behind him, he manages to whip up some of the biggest laughs of the year. Black plays Dewey Finn, a guitarist thrown out of his band, rendering him even less capable of paying the rent that he owes his substitute teacher roommate. Posing as his roommate, he assumes the responsibility of educating a classroom of unusually well-behaved fifth graders, who he discovers to be, rather conveniently, excellent musicians. School of Rock...
...show judges were thrown into 15 minutes of turmoil as Schrum identified the equation “y=4x+7” as a first order equation. The given answer was “linear,” and the show stopped for 15 minutes while the home base of Jeopardy in California was called to verify the answer. Judges ultimately concluded that a first order equation was indeed a linear...
...academic colleagues and students apparently do not take him seriously, since—by his own admission—“I [Finkelstein] was thrown out of every [university] school in New York” and is “in exile in [DePaul University] in Chicago,” where he is “not happy” (Irish Times, July 1, 2003). He doesn’t understand why he has had such a “hard time.” Well maybe because he has leveled so many false charges against so many people...