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Jonathan Miller is probably the most genial of the four. He has devised two monologues--one about lost trousers on the British Railways, and one about the kind of people who buy porno books in furtive shops (books, says Miller, like A History of Flogging in the Army, the Navy and the Air Force)--which he illustrates by cavorting around the stage in all manner of curious attitudes, wildly illustrating, with suitable gestures, various aspects of his curiouser narratives. Miller also gives, in another bit, what is probably the best line in the show: "I'm not really...
...rhetoric ("it is a significant historical movement -- the wave of the future -- leading to the rise of a responsible alternative to apathy"), to downright poor taste ("We will be done with the beatniks, the puerile purveyors of pornography, the limp-wristed bent-kneed writers. . .") niks, the puerile purveyors of porno-provided by the grown-ups. George Sokolsky, a syndicated columnist who began his journalistic career as editor of a Petrograd newspaper during the Revolution received the award for journalism. Speaking quietly with emotion, he declared: "For forty years I have been observing the struggle in the world against Communist revolution...
With 30 seconds left to play, the hustling Portnoy evened the game with a 35 ft. jumper, Harvard waited for one shot, which was taken by Gary Borchard with ten seconds remaining. The ubiquitous Porno blocked it, and Columbia gained possession when the loose ball went out of Crimson hands at mid-court with two seconds left...
True Story, Liberty and the New York Evening Graphic (better known as the "porno-Graphic") had slipped from his aging grasp long ago. But for 50 years, Health Cultist Macfadden has remained as devoted to New Physical Culture, his first & last magazine, as he is to buttermilk, raw carrots and cottage cheese salad. Deep in the red, the gaudy bimonthly has done little to deserve his affection. More than 250,000 readers have paid $60 a set for Macfadden's Encyclopedia of Health and Physical Culture, an eight-volume guide to diet, disease and happy sex relations. Only...
...Many undoubtedly accepted the proposal as a pay cut in disguise. Others may have elected to subscribe to a losing company for fear of losing their jobs. But some there were who believed the Graphic gave promise of becoming a moneymaker when it lives down its reputation as "the porno-Graphic...