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...deciding that homosexuality, "per se," is not a mental disorder. This left in limbo those homosexuals who are dissatisfied with their condition. So the association created "ego-dystonic homosexuality," the world's first mental disorder that is only a disorder if the afflicted person thinks it is. DSM-III, published in 1980, officially listed tobacco dependence and transsexualism as disorders. "Tobacco dependence" may have been discovered to be a special disorder, worthy of its own category, so that smokers could collect from insurance companies for therapy. When "transsexualism," or discomfort about one's anatomic gender and the desire to change...
Travolta is one of Isaacson's major projects. The actor will soon be getting ready for Far from Over, or Saturday Night Fever III. A self-described "reluctant matador" when it comes to exercise, Travolta has developed some unaesthetic handles around his hips. "When I'm not being paid a lot of money to do a movie and to get in shape, I'm like Marlon Brando," he confesses. Says the determined Isaacson: "There's no question as to whether we can produce the shape and the look." After all, Isaacson came to fame, or more precisely to the attention...
Fraudulence and self-delusion are strong themes in Wolff's work, as they are in books by his brother, Geoffrey Wolff, whose Bad Debts and The Duke of Deception deal with the misdeeds of the authors' con-man father Arthur Samuels Wolff, alias Arthur Saunders Wolff III, alias Saunders Ansell-Wolff III. In The Rich Brother, Tobias handles raffishness with affection. The hustler wearing the red blazer and Roman-emperor toupee, who hitches a ride with a Century 21 realtor and his blissed-out brother, is in the grand American tradition. "'I am by training an engineer,' Webster began...
...Mattelson's cover illustration. The way he designed the latticework of missiles, alternating menacing (red) with protective (blue), was intriguing. Unfortunately, we have allowed these missiles to become part of our existence when in reality they are limiting our freedom and threatening to destroy us. John Wiersum Arlington Heights, III. Man of the Year...
...motivated by "glitter and gusto" and that he was "immature" prove only that the doctors have been watching too many beer commercials. Their comments are an insult to all victims of Bolshevism. I suggest they administer a psychiatric examination to the officials involved in this tragedy. Peter Lepka Freeport, III...