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Inevitably, the strange sight of the two ungainly aircraft, one on top of the other, inspired a steady stream of barnyard jokes. In the Los Angeles Times, Cartoonist Paul Conrad sketched the intertwined pair perched on a runway and captioned his drawing: "Not tonight, Dear, I have a headache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Maiden Flight of the Mated Birds | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...cutoff jeans, subteen knee socks and track shoes to sing Love Is a Rose and That'll Be the Day. She is dead serious about her music, but the superstar nonsense amuses her; once she kidded her Moonbeam McSwine reputation by posing for an album cover in a barnyard with a couple of pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Down the Wind | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...such topics as castration, excrement, bestiality and, in one memorably tasteless panel, Betty Ford's breast cancer. Every issue features photographs sent in by readers, displaying the private parts of their wives and girl friends. "We are genuine entertainment with no pretensions," says Flynt. "We have proved that barnyard humor has a market appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Bad Case Makes Worse Law | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...unit has shipped out and forgotten him. But a district policeman suspects that Chonkin may be a Nazi spy-perhaps even a White Russian general about to lead a counterrevolution. When a detail is sent to arrest him, Chonkin refuses to abandon his post. Uproarious chaos, slapstick and barnyard antics ensue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kievstone Cops | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...York Times, tried to insert David Dellinger's comment, "Oh bullshit," (for which Judge Julius Hoffman revoked his bail) into the news story he was writing. The Times national desk balked. They wanted to say Dellinger used "an obscenity." Lukas persisted, and they compromised with "a barnyard epithet." You used to get a feeling that Tom Wolfe at his best gave you stuff like that, but no more. He has become too concerned with masks and manners to go about trapping flies. In fact, he has become a fly himself--the Truman Capote of journalism, caught up in appearances...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Epiphenomenous Bosh | 12/16/1976 | See Source »

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