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-- More than 10,000 stores across the country, including such mammoth chains as 7-Eleven and Rite Aid, have removed Playboy and Penthouse from their shelves, many of them acting after receiving a letter from the Meese commission suggesting that they might be cited for distributing pornography.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Busters | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

Skin magazines on the shelves

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pornography: a Poll | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

Another Kovacs anomaly: though his legend has grown since his death in a car accident in 1962, at age 42, his programs--mostly in quaint black and white--have remained largely unseen. Unlike the TV work of most of his comedy contemporaries (who are still active or whose shows can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Celebrating a Comedy Composer | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

Nestled at one end of the Lampoon castle, Starr Bookshop (29 Plympton St.) is the prototypical used bookstore. It has two floors of classical and scholarly books practically falling off the jam-packed shelves, and the man behind the counter knows everything. McIntyre and Moore Booksellers (30 Plympton St.) is...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Browsing for Books | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

The novel rode out of Spain on the horse and donkey of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and the modern short story had its early masters in Russia, France and England. But the hard-boiled detective was born in America. His popularity has remained in force for half a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neither Tarnished Nor Afraid | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

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