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When President Calvin Coolidge delivered his 1928 State of the Union address, he noted that America had never "met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time." Americans had a lot to be proud of back then: World War I was thoroughly behind them, radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash of 1929 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

Every once in a while, an artist gets an inspiration that changes pop culture. Even if he's a slop artist, and the inspiration is a movie about a woman with a clitoris in her throat. Such a one was Gerard Rocco Damiano, aka Jerry Gerard, who died this weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn's Pied Piper: Deep Throat Director Dies | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

The Deep Throat millions never got to Damiano - how does a director put muscle on the Mafia? - but it did allow him to pursue his dream of being a respected film auteur, though still in hardcore. Most directors with a left-field mega-hit would instantly crank out another picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn's Pied Piper: Deep Throat Director Dies | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

Georgina Spelvin (again, not her real name) plays Justine Jones, a lonely woman who slits her wrists in a bathtub. After dying a virgin, she tells a gatekeeper to eternity that she wants to live out her sexual urges, to be "filled, engulfed, consumed by lust." She briefly gets that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn's Pied Piper: Deep Throat Director Dies | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

Europe fared no better during the initial hours of trading, with London's FTSE 100 at one point dropping 5.6% to its lowest mark since April, 2003. In Paris, France's CAC 40 plunged 5.4%, while Germany's Dax was down 3.3%. Things looked set to begin just as bad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market Gloom Continues | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

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