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...Pause, withering stare) "You saw it?' (disinterested gaze, combined with sip from sherry glass and lengthy stare at shoelaces) "Yes." (raised eyebrows, implication of deep passions long ago; brutal, passionate love, spurned by a lover ago; brutal, passionate love, spurned by a lover who came out of the closet on a Venetian gondola and shtupped his wife in their bridal suite...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Pseudo-Drama | 12/6/1984 | See Source »

...Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy accepted the 1983 Tony Award for Best Play, he thanked his male co-producer and lover for making it all possible. That in a few words epitomizes what the play successfully strives to do--not merely bring homosexuality "out of the closet," but place it in a broader social context, speaking of the problems of love, life and relationships as they affect everyone. Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy is an extremely well written, well plotted and, judging by this production, well performed exploration of what one person, who happens to be homosexual, wants...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: A Glowing Trio | 11/29/1984 | See Source »

...expensive (Benet's family also had to buy a station wagon to transport the harp when she began playing it), its size can be an asset. Benet says, "sometimes, when I'm on tour, I use the harp case as a dressing room. It also doubles as a closet for my long dresses...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Hooked on Classics | 11/9/1984 | See Source »

...Helms' commercials have had their desired effect. The senator has gradually chipped away at Hunt's "moderate" armor, portraying the governor as both a wishy-washy leader and a "closet left-winger." Helms, in speeches and commercials, depicts Hunt as a "Mondale liberal" who frequently associates with blacks, homosexuals, feminists, and atheists...

Author: By Ben Sherwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Good vs. Evil | 11/3/1984 | See Source »

...freelance artist who has known two major manic episodes. There is a very thin line between a mild manic experience, which is beneficial, and a full-blown manic occurrence, which I know from experience is dangerous and devastating. Let's bring manic-depressives out of the closet and onto the podium, but not put them on a pedestal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1984 | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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