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...customer pays extra. On the north side of the street is the "Beefcake Zone" where male hustlers loiter outside the homosexual theaters. The south side belongs to the straights, 70% of whom seem to be Japanese tourists. And from the open doors waft odors of cigarette smoke and Lysol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PORNO PLAGUE | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...they come, and Miss Keaton must work hard at playing a neurotic contemporary woman trying to reconcile with her husband (Elliott Gould). Divorced, but unhappy about it, Keaton and Gould attempt a trial reconciliation, a marriage by contract. "Living with her is like living with a Lysol commercial/' grouses Gould to the family lawyer (Paul Sorvino), who has been enjoying a weekly liaison with Keaton. The lawyer would like to marry her himself, and makes the terms of the marriage contract so tough that he figures the relationship will not last even the prescribed six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Murder by Contract | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...flat rubber and polyurethane, tensor lights and stainless steel. Grandmothers cheerfully took off their shoes to clamber around in Lucas Samaras' glittering, mirror-encrusted Alice-in-Wonderland rabbit warren, Corridor, 1967. Hippies gazed dreamily through the barred door of Edward Kienholz's The State Hospital into a Lysol-scented interior where lay the pathetic form of a lunatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: White Wings in the Sunlight | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...Klan 100, they may be Ruinous too. For whatever individual nemeses may await the Klan's various leaders during 13 weeks of public hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, daylight and logic are as lethal to the huggermugger mystique of the "invisible empire" as Lysol is to microbes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Dark Days in Weird Week | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...infinitely more dangerous than that of a steeple jack. Of her poet friends, nearly a dozen killed themselves one way or another. Elfin Elinor Wylie did it by burning the candle at both ends; Vachel (The Congo) Lindsay made a more gruesome exit by drinking a bottle of Lysol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Philistia to Bohemia | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

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