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...which manages to offend more people than all its competitors combined. But more interesting than any of the legal issues raised by the conviction is the ambivalent nature of the anger which surrounds it. Everyone who has voiced public disapproval of the court decision, from Nat Hentoff and Nora Ephron to the New York Times, has prefaced his comments with a strong statement deploring the "offensiveness" of Hustler. Journalists are rushing to protect not the odious Larry Flynt but rather the principle of the first amendment, in other words, themselves. This ruffled condemnation and self-consciously fierce separation of Flynt...
Such tactics are not always necessary. In 1973 conscience-stricken Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz sold his beloved country home to repay $17,500 owed Simon & Schuster for an unwritten tome on the 1960s. Nora Ephron (Crazy Salad) has paid the last of $14,000 she owed Viking for a never-written history of the liquor industry...
...what you're after. The heroine is a pretty feminist who becomes a college president at 29-with her husband working for her as an administrator. No book or script yet, but if you check this month's Esquire, it's all right there in Nora Ephron's piece called "The Bennington Affair," a wicked cross between Updike's Couples and McCarthy's The Groves of Academe...
...probably remember that in 1972, Bennington College hired Gail Parker, an assistant professor of history and literature at Harvard, and her husband Tom (she at $22,500, he at $18,000) and then last January fired them. Ephron has filled in the details and provided a rare glimpse of the inner workings of a small elite college, with marvelous dialogue and excellent bit parts. As Ephron tells it, Bennington (600 students) is full of articulate, liberated eccentrics isolated in Vermont's Green Mountains. Sounds...
Married. Carl Bernstein, 31, one half of the Washington Post's prizewinning Watergate-reporting team and co-author (with Bob Woodward) of the bestselling The Final Days; and Nora Ephron, 34, witty feminist editor (Esquire) and author (Crazy Salad); both for the second time; in Manhattan...