Word: closet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These properties could make possible extraordinarily small, efficient equipment. "We can imagine a data-storage file," says Morton, "holding 15 million coded bits of information in one or two cubic inches and run by forty-thousandths of a watt of power." The same job now would require a closet full of equipment and hundreds of watts...
...indecision and buffeted by forces and events beyond prophecy or control. "He was playing Hamlet," writes Halberstam, "thinking about the race constantly, wanting to make it, being led there by his emotions again and again, only to be brought back from the brink by the cold words of his closet advisors...
Many a politician has livened his campaign by touring an Indian reservation, posing for photographers in a feathered headdress, then stowing the war bonnet in a closet. Arizona's Senator Barry Go Id water is a more astute politician than that. He proudly answers to the tribal name of Barry Sun Dust, also speaks Navajo with near-fluency. Just to cement his tribal connections, he has now hired as his Washington receptionist Yazzie Leonard, 20, a beautiful, full-blooded Navajo who majored in dramatic arts at Phoenix College. Barry interviewed Yazzie for more than an hour in her native...
When we last left the Ramparts Boys they were in a pretty tight fix: the phones were out, there was no more booze in the closet and, worst of all, they owed a million and a half dollars to angry creditors-including their archenemy, the Internal Revenue Service. When Leader Warren Hinckle III wrote the whole thing off, it sure looked like the end for the gang's magazine...
...story," he cannot escape his conviction that misery is all he will ever know ("Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gray corpse"). He places his final hopes on the possibility that even seemingly straight Alan is in reality a "closet queer," unhappy like the rest of them. In the game and the play, it is Alan's phone call that provides the final shock in a series of shattering revelations...