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...Joseph Goebbels is reputed to have denounced the man of steel as a non-Aryan, but one of the book's contributors boldly answers, "To be honest, no. The man has all the ethnicity of Formica." And is there anything that Superman cannot do? Yes, since his superskin is invulnerable, he cannot get a vaccination or a tattoo. "And," adds another essayist, "since he can't get a blood test, he can't get a marriage license...
Guccione made his reputation with Penthouse, his raunchy, lighthearted superskin magazine for men (TIME, July 30). Viva was supposed to be a bright and sophisticated monthly for women who find Cosmopolitan too coy. It is a logical goal, but the problems begin with the publisher himself. To place the magazine in a cosmic context, Guccione makes the dubious prophecy that "a new epoch of madness and excess awaits us." He protests against the Supreme Court's pornography decision saying the court "sodomizes the Constitution...
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