Word: closet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people inside. United Housing obviously wanted to produce a city of thousands of inexpensive rooms, which it did very well. Each of the 15,372 apartments has hardwood floors, ample closet space, a large kitchen, central air conditioning. At $450 per room down and $25 per room in monthly maintenance charges, Co-Op City is an unbeatable bargain-at first glance...
...victory over Barry Goldwater. In the 1960s, however, the measurement of success in box scores was not enough. If the New Politics has any validity, it is that the politician needs continuing mass support, in election year and out. Johnson had earned his reputation and learned his trade in closet politics, in the one-party Texas of another era and the cloister of Capitol Hill. He had scant preparation for the larger, less orderly world of national politics...
...homosexual who hides his desires from the world-and from himself-beneath a barrage of bluster. In the title role of The Sergeant, Rod Steiger continues his obvious fascination with the deviate character. Where he was the screaming, mincing Mr. Joyboy in The Loved One, and a coronation of closet queens in No Way to Treat a Lady, he is here appropriately disciplined as the doomed Sergeant Callan...
WONDERS, INC., by Crawford Kilian, illustrated by John Larrecq (Parnassus; $4.25), is a whimsical story about a marvelous factory that makes lines (skylines, hairlines, sidelines), mistakes (from colossal blunders to tiny errors), time (part-time, pastime, split seconds, fleeting moments) and space (from outer to closet...
...alarm clock with him when he left. He also let me know he intended to stay in his room as long as he legally could (from 8 a.m. to midnight). He did, and I was forced to tiptoe around him while he studied and to get dressed in the closet. I didn't spend much time in my room...