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Much of that audience will probably be reading Fatherhood. They will get what they expect, including a fair measure of out-loud laughs. Cosby is still mystified about the motives for baby making ("a kind of erotic arts and crafts"), and he disdains overtly proud dads who believe "mere fertilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 12, 1986 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

Curry was the mad scientist of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, resplendent in black satin and bad manners. Here he is a figure of more majestic maleficence. Sprawling in the lubricious gloom of his lair, he looks like a huge Naugahyde goat demon who has been flayed and candied, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pictures At an Exhibition Legend | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

This may seem to contradict the main thesis, but Gay is not one of those little minds bothered by the hobgoblins of foolish consistency. And the Victorians were themselves contradictory. What other age could produce such an exemplar of pious perversity as Charles Kingsley, author of The Water-Babies and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Amen of the Universe the Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud; Volume Ii: the Tender Passion | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Within his profession, Hall, 58, is a revered, almost legendary figure, esteemed both for the brilliance of his productions and for his odds-defying, inspirational leadership, but to most of the theatergoing public he is unknown. He chose, in the early stages of a promising career, to abandon commercial theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Man for Parallel Seasons | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Despite the chilling effect of law and custom, liberal ideas and practices surface and are customarily blamed on the West. To many Chinese, Westerners seem enslaved by their animal instincts and unconcerned about family unity. Still, more open attitudes seem to continue. The usually stern Shanghai Liberation Daily raised eyebrows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Some Stirrings on the Mainland | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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