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...terrific publicity campaign has turned Emmanuelle into a box office success rivalling that of Last Tango, by promising racy respectability ("X you can take your wife to") and a certain intellectual stimulation ("The most sensual part of your body is your mind). The poster earnestly assuages embarrassment and guilt, promising that "after the film is over you don't find yourself making a hasty departure while scrupulously avoiding eye contact." The great success of these ploys, along with the material opulence and glibly amoral tone of the film, is a clue to what the movie was meant to accomplish. Jaeckin...
...other people's failings. (Sometimes he was too decent: he sold a copy of Michael Harrington's Socialism to my roommate; unfortunately, on credit). Last summer, Nick rented an apartment in Cambridge, from which he could commute to his job in a Boston Liquor factory. He proudly displayed his poster of Karl Marx on one of the apartment walls, and shortly afterwards invited the landlady--a nice, conservative, elderly woman--in for tea. Seeing the Marx poster, the woman asked Nick who the bearded, stern Victorian gentleman was. Nick was not fazed: he explained that it was a picture...
...Local health organizations are setting up sphygmomanometers in supermarkets to test shoppers; in some states dentists and dental technicians are taking their patients' pressures. The A.H.A. is urging both patients and their physicians to take blood pressure seriously. DO YOU HAVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? asks an A.H.A. poster. ONLY YOUR DOCTOR CAN TELL...
Susan E. Meyer. 207 pages. Watson-Guptill. $27.50. James Montgomery Flagg is probably best known to the public for his enlistment poster of a Jehovic Uncle Sam demanding I WANT YOU, for which he used himself as the model. As an illustrator, however, he favored beautiful women as his subjects; some of his best works are portraits of the famous, including Mark Twain, John and Ethel Barrymore. Susan Meyer's book offers a wide selection of Flagg's relaxed yet robust drawings, paintings and poster art, and fondly fills in the lively biographical gaps...
...want to help transform some barren area into fertile land, and reduce the difference between the city and the countryside," said the one who'd put up the poster...