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...Kink. WAVAW has asked record-buyers to boycott the three companies. But so far the tactic has had little impact. In fact, record shops may be on the way toward luring browsers away from dirty-book shops. Some current albums: Wild Angel by Nelson Slater (girl wearing a chain gag); Bloodstone's Do You Wanna Do a Thing? (gang-rape scene); Pure Food and Drug Act's Choice Cuts (woman's bare buttocks stamped with the album title). A group called the Ohio Players has illustrated a series of albums with sadistic photos. Among them: a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Really Socking It to Women | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...plot only for the sake of appearances and waste a good deal of energy reaching for laughs. The result is compounded confusion, relieved only by one novel touch. This must be the first train movie in which the hero keeps getting thrown off the train. It is a nice gag, which has the added advantage of introducing Richard Pryor. He appears as a thief, with the unlikely name of Grover Muldoon, who helps the long-suffering George on the train and off again a couple of times. What furtive sprightliness Silver Streak manages to work up is attributable mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Milk Train | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Since the Food and Drug Administration last week banned Red Dye No. 4, a carcinogenic food dye, so you might expect Harvard medical experts to gag uncontrollably at the thought of eating maraschino cherries in their Manhattans...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Warnings Don't Change Doctors' Diets | 9/29/1976 | See Source »

...even more serious concern than creating a professional advocate is the gag-effect of company money. Intimate working relationships between professors and executives inevitably lead to friendships, sympathy, and reluctance to alienate future sources of grants or job possibilities for oneself and one's students...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Eating from the hand that feeds you | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...instance where, say, five colors were needed instead of only four. Indeed, when Scientific American's puckish columnist Martin Gardner last year announced that such a "counter example" had indeed been found, it stunned math buffs everywhere-until they realized the claim was an April Fool's gag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eureka! | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

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