Word: photoplay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...divorcee whom he picked up at a middle-aged singles dance. Benson's is a life lived at half-staff. The flags are high and snapping only in his imagination, a quaint attic of '30s and '40s swing tunes, names and faces from old copies of Photoplay, World War II stories and oddments of history...
...result, Rags at its second-best, often explores the underbelly of the established culture it resents better than it extols the merits of the counter culture hanging over the Western horizon. Articles on Frederick Mellinger, Hollywood's successful purveyor of sexy underwear; MacFadden-Bartell Publishing, publishers of True Story, Photoplay, and True Confessions; and corporate dress codes, from Bonwit's to United Airlines to California's Jeans West; are often fascinating, despite their sometimes under-researched, often slightly censorious poses. At least Rags has a firm clinch on its enemies. And its rather foolish compulsion to overkill with a succession...