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...people to buy a look of wear and tear, to look like they've been places, to appear raw and experienced when in fact they're living sheltered easy lives that afford them the capital to buy a life they'll never know except through bleach in a washing machine. It's buying life instead of living...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Where's Rock's Sincerity? | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Around the corner at the Glass Slipper Lounge a plump, bleach-blond dancer clad in a g-string prances on the stage as half-a-dozen patrons look on. This is what they call "adult dancing." Maybe it would be erotic if she was 40 pounds lighter, 15 years younger and happy...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: The Combat Zone: Cleaning Up Its Act? | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...bleach-blonde woman wearing an army coat with epaulettes solicits a small Asian man who has walked up and down the street at least three times. "Call me any time after seven o'clock," she says, and then dashes away...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: The Combat Zone: Cleaning Up Its Act? | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

Send a cheer across to bleach 'em nice and white...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Contemplating Games and The Game | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

...them are small and poorly funded. In San Francisco, Vicente ("Chente") Matus, an ex-addict who now works for Midcity Consortium to Combat AIDS, ambles along the rough-and-tumble streets of the city's Mission District, his white plastic bag bursting with 1-oz. bottles of household bleach and packets of condoms. His message to IV addicts is blunt and simple: Don't share needles, but if you have to, clean the "works" twice with bleach, a procedure that reduces the risk of exposure to the virus. While the rate of new infection among the city's mostly white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Face of AIDS | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

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