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...full of the flavor of bygone populism. He played down the race question, taking a less fervent stand against busing than his opponents. He concentrated on issues that would appeal to unaffluent blacks and whites alike: utility and insurance rates, hospitalization costs, the state tax on food and patent medicines. The voters responded. Along with the black vote, Howell drew a considerable portion of the white vote that went to George Wallace...
...personal principle, Mr. Feild has never before exhibited his work. The "market-place" aspect of the fine arts he calls "menacing" and "an ultimate racket like the Mafia or patent medicine." The idea of arranging a business contract between artist, dealer and buyer offends Mr. Feild ("how can you price intrinsic value?"). A lifelong socialist, Mr. Feild maintains the ancient craft of picture-making is nearly impossible in a capitalist economy, which judges all objects on utilitarian standards...
...moral chill of the McCarthy era still afflicts the networks. Even in their journalism there is an ever-present binary fear of Government and advertisers. Thus TV-documentary writers begin a special on corruption in Saigon-only to have it scuttled. Then they are assigned a program on patent medicines-and ordered to abandon it. Then they start work on an examination of the military-industrial complex; that, too, is killed...
...Patent Medicines. In subsequent chapters, Dr. Reuben sensibly relates sexual pleasure to higher erogenous zones like the brain. But generally he is too busy trying to shimmy, like Sister Kate, to rhythms established by Masters and Johnson. His chapters on how to catch and hold a man are out of the dark ages of the women's magazines. Where else could one find such statements as "selecting a husband is the most urgent and critical decision a woman will make in her lifetime," or his description of dedicated bachelors as "always charming, always engaging, but regrettably never charmed...
...Mosaic in insisting that the best place to do it is through a monogamous, heterosexual marriage. But then how does a woman make the most of her unmeasured capacity for orgasms with only one man? At this point Reuben suggests settling for quality, not quantity. Such advice, like most patent medicines, is perfectly O.K. as long as the patient is reasonably healthy. But if pain persists, better see a physician...