Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston School Committee President David Finnegan, expected to run third in today's election, shook voters' hands at Boston Municipal Court and City Hospital before holding a press conference in front of City Hall...
...photographs of childbirth. Larsen went to the office of a Bronx assistant district attorney and ceremoniously sold a copy to a detective; the D.A. charged Larsen with selling an obscene publication. The incident brought national publicity to LIFE and a test case involving the First Amendment's free-press guarantee. Larsen was acquitted...
...years in the research and writing, Wolfe's most ambitious work is crammed with inside poop and racy incident that 19 years ago was ignored by what he terms the "proper Victorian Gents" of the press. The fast cars, booze, astro groupies, the envies and injuries of the military caste system were not part of what Americans would have considered the right stuff. Wolfe lays it all out in brilliantly staged Op Lit scenes: the tacky cocktail lounges of Cocoa Beach where one could hear the Horst Wessel Song sung by ex-rocket scientists of the Third Reich; Vice...
...radiate qualities dear to the hearts of academic critics: fractured narrative lines, surrealistic landscapes surrounded by the chiaroscuro of despair, irony, symbols galore and, most important, a self-conscious sense of being difficult. Small wonder that so much of his work has seemed to move straight from printing press to college syllabus. Yet it has never been necessary to go to school to acquire a taste for Hawkes. At its best his writing is vividly accessible, and almost always disturbing. His recurrent subject is the eruption of some dark, violent passion into the turmoil of mental ife, and his prose...
DIED. Roy E. Larsen, 80, Time Inc. magazine marketing wizard, a creator of The March of Time and first publisher of LIFE, who was a top Time Inc. executive for 56 years, 21 of them as president; in Fairfield, Conn, (see PRESS...