Word: erosion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DON'T SEND ME TO PRISON cried the full-page ad in the New York Times, but that last desperate appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to be in vain. Ralph Ginzburg, huckster-publisher of diverse periodicals (including the defunct Eros, Avant-Garde, Fact and the current Moneysworth...
In a sense, Ginzburg was a man ahead of the legal times. Eros, his slick, expensively produced "quarterly on the joys of love," was mildly startling in the early '60s, as was its companion biweekly "newsletter of love," Liaison, and a mail-order volume called The Housewife's...
Many a lesser Picasso, of course, is still better than many a lesser man's best, and the conventional response is that Picasso may yet surprise us. Perhaps, but the likelihood dwindles, and in any case it no longer matters: the issue of final greatness in art does not...
Ultimate Weapon. Years later, in a comedy of Eros, Jonathan uncovers an arouseful blouseful named Bobbie (AnnMargret). Here at last is a girl with whom a man can share his ambitions -and Jonathan's main ambition is to make love 25 hours a day. But after a while, as...
* Only Avant-Garde survives. Eros ended in 1963, after four issues. Its brief life contributed to Ginzburg's being convicted of pandering through the mails (an appeal is still pending). Fact folded in 1967, three years after Barry Goldwater initiated a libel suit that eventually cost Ginzburg nearly $92...