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...Beach Boys still play around, of course, although Brian is now making solo music on his own. He is currently in the studio with Smile collaborator Van Dyke Parks, good news that demonstrates, like this great collection, that the creative tide is still strong. Surf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding The Crest Again | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

ALTHOUGH IT'S BEEN A WHILE since the media called her every time they needed a quote about homosexuals at Harvard, Allen definitely feels that she was a token for much of her time here. She describes herself somewhat ironically as being "the dyke of the Class of '93," and is conscious of the notoriety that caused...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Making Her Own Schedule, Setting Her Own Pace | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

Miller often used four letter words, and offensive terms such as "dyke," "fag," or "half-man," but his method of delivering them, and his acceptance of them as a matter of course somehow reclaimed them from obscenity...when he talked about his experience as "a young fag in love, scared shitless," it was touching and funny, never discomfiting...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Tim Miller Bares Queer Body In Original Stage Performance | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

...homosexual by nature, but an "out, loud and proud" dyke by choice. My being attracted to and sleeping with women has never hurt anyone, in any way, except for making the homophobes on campus slightly uncomfortable. People tend to get nervous when they are faced with differences, especially differences that make them re-evaluate their systems of morality...

Author: By Sandy Cavazos, | Title: A Lot to Learn | 12/3/1991 | See Source »

...Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, seem dated, and neither time nor camp tastes have improved Mister Ed. But even middling sitcoms like The Patty Duke Show are more effortlessly engaging than most of the nervous joke machines that pass for comedies today. Good ones like The Dick Van Dyke Show remind us that the trivial plot lines of old domestic comedies were often a mask for shrewd satire of suburban neuroses. The best ones, like I Love Lucy, which invented the vocabulary for the modern sitcom, have the formal perfection and infinite repeatability of great pop music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Yet Again, Lucy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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