He had just posed for a picture, seemingly astride the hemispheres, one foot planted on each side of the line, his hands raised in triumph.
His wife, Rachel, suggests that he might like to spend the hour-long interview on the sofa where he had just posed for photos, but he refuses.
A middle-aged man who had announced "I saw you in 'Damn Yankees' fourteen times, Mr. Lewis — I'm addicted to you," had just posed for an onstage picture, clutching his heart and weeping.
He had just posed for pictures with a celebrity visitor, the singer Ricky Martin, who left wearing a long white scarf called a kata that is traditionally bestowed as a blessing.
He has just posed for pictures in one of his trademark designer suits, but now he's back in dark jeans, a sweatshirt and blue-and-green sneakers, his tall frame slouched in a tatty armchair.
This was a piece of awkward timing: yesterday, as a political scientist testified at the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial that gay men and lesbians lacked political clout, the news came out that Cindy McCain — that would be Cindy McCain, the wife of the Republican party's standard bearer — had just posed for an ad campaign protesting Proposition 8.
By Margaret Talbot January 21, 2010 This was a piece of awkward timing: yesterday, as a political scientist testified at the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial that gay men and lesbians lacked political clout, the news came out that Cindy McCain — that would be Cindy McCain, the wife of the Republican party's standard bearer — had just posed for an ad campaign protesting Proposition 8.
If they'd asked and said, you know, made a mention of, you know, if they'd asked about my sexual orientation or if they'd asked, you know, if I had both male and female partners, or transgendered partners, if they had just posed the question, you know, it would have been as easy as that".
"Maybe I should have just gone and posed for Playboy after all".
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