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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involving a girl who bears a startling resemblance to Alice in Wonderland) by an anonymous North Italian artist of the late 15th century. This is the kind of thing major museums ought to be about, when they are not distracted by show biz and self-puffery. One sees the print discovering its own nature and destiny as copper engraving changed from popular illustration to the status of an independent "fine art" medium...
...grandson of Sigmund, Freud has long tickled Britons with his acerbic, urbane humor in print and on television talk shows. Though the contest in the Cambridgeshire constituency of Ely marked his debut in politics, he quickly found the field fertile for his brand of fun. When his Conservative opponent showed a lack of familiarity with rural Ely, Freud labeled him the "identikit candidate." Freud then arranged for somebody to ask the Tory during a TV debate whether he approved of giving funds to MAGPAS. "Oh, yes," chirruped the candidate, a young London stockbroker. "Indeed, yes, an admirable idea. Splendid, splendid...
...prolonged a time during the Watergate hearings was a tough task. Other non-unique stories that echoed the past passed with barely a ripple of eyebrows--Elizabeth Taylor divorced Richard Burton, Atlantis was rediscovered off Cadiz, Spain. Other biographies of Monroe had been done before and passed out of print without a whimper, and many questioned what Mailer had brought to the task that gave it such notoriety...
...Frazier Ali fight which he wrote on deadline for Life. In Marilyn, Mailer coins at least four new words: "fucky" as the description of her earlier roles with all their sexual abundance; "factoid" for the sort of press agent story which comes to life when it hits print; "bazzazz" for what she brought to Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend; and "squiblet" for one of her first small roles as a starlet, which first brought her to the attention of the hoary moguls of "Factoid Gulch...
...other points in the ad are similarly vague. "Opportunities for advancement," "modern manufacturing plants," and "dignity and respect" all look nice in print, but these items were evidently not abundant enough to prevent 3000 Farah workers from walking out 15 months...