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...sublimates at the gym: "endorphins, not hormones." He rejects the amiable advances of Steve (Tom Hewitt), who is HIV positive. And gradually he retreats from the gay life -- not just the sex, but the camaraderie in times of frivolity and mourning. He doesn't want to attend -- and diss -- one more AIDS memorial at which the guest stars are "the Gay Men's Chorus, Vanessa Redgrave, Siegfried and Roy." He can't bear to "see one more 28- year-old man with a cane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celibacy, The Safest Sex | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...fine-looking cheekbones and fabulously patterned hair (a blond pouf in front and several geometric designs on the side for those keeping score), a bunch of music video scenes with bustier-clad blonds dancing to Ice's new tunes ("I love a girl/And then I diss the same one/Because I know there's more where that came from"), and lots and lots of clothes. Clothes in every color of the neon rainbow, clothes with words on them, clothes with Haringesque graffiti on them, gang clothes, dance clothes, nerd clothes, and even one or two items not made of Lycra...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Richochet Mixes Senseless Violena With Gratuitous Sex A Good Night Out | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...wise to him. When they call him up and a sweet old German nanny answers, they say, "Come off it, you old bastard." The trouble is that there really is a sweet old German nanny at Sellers' place, and she often gets an earful when she answers: "Voss diss?" Now that Alec Guinness has opted for serious roles, Peter Sellers is the best light actor in the English-speaking cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Shy Man | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Eluding South Sea cannibals who are bent on turning brats into Bratwurst, roly-poly Hans and Fritz last week reacted with their usual aplomb. "Vot's mit diss nutty island?" demands black-haired Hans in righteous indignation. Just in time, an utter stranger saves the brothers from certain ingestion. "Only for you," towheaded Fritz thanks their rescuer, "ve vos on der half-shell." And so, as it has since their birth 60 years ago, another bit of nonsense fell off the pen of Cartoonist Rudolph Dirks to save the world's most durable delinquents of the funny page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dirks's Bad Boys | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...diners. In a trice, Oilman Calan has rigged a rope around a chimney, and Lounge Lizard Freddy Deline, the onetime acrobat, is dexterously swinging himself down to the precarious peer. Fashionable Monsignor Royford crawls steadfastly along a narrow ledge, twelve stories above the ground, to give absolution. Katie Diss prays to God for the first time in many years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Earl on the Ledge | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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