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...subjects as varied as Jack Nicholson and Mary Tyler Moore. He came to TIME in 1968 after serving as a speechwriter for L.B.J. and then Veep Hubert Humphrey. Says Janos, a former Houston bureau chief who has also reported on space shots and astronauts' moon walks: "Even a superspectacular like Kong is pale stuff compared with watching a rocket lift off at Cape Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 25, 1976 | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...superspectacular sexual fantasies, Kubly is hard to beat. He presents an underwater coupling, a 30-ft.-high phallic symbol, a necrophilic stripper, a mass rape of a midget. It's almost enough to bring heterosexuality into disrepute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Decline & Fall of Metaphor | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

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