Word: erosion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In both plays, William Larsen is capable as the weakest of the triumvirs, Lepidus, and his tippling aboard Pompey's ship is amusing. Lee Richardson's Enobarbus is strangely disengaged from its context, and his voice is not musical enough for what are some of the most gorgeous passages ever...
It was all-star week at the U.S. Parole Board. Yes, said the board, to parole applications from 1) Bobby Baker, 43, the onetime protégéof Lyndon B. Johnson who has served 15 months of a one-to-three-year sentence for theft, income tax evasion and...
Sir/The irony of Ralph Ginzburg's going to prison [Feb. 21] in 1972 for sending something as mild as Eros through the mail is obvious.
Ginzburg was originally convicted in 1963 when he dared to print a series of photographs depicting a nude black man and white woman embracing. He appealed his case for ten years, eventually taking it to the Supreme Court which ruled 5-4 that Ginzburg's magazine Eros "stimulated the reader...
The irony is that Eros and the other Ginzburg offerings of nine years ago now appear tame. Today they would be unlikely to attract either the law's wrath or the public's attention.