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Pseudotypical. The magazine can indeed be bold and occasionally brilliant, and sometimes superficial or old hat or appallingly tasteless. Such features as a parody of Scientific American, a roster of "The 100 Best People in the World" (Harry Bridges, Orson Welles, Charles de Gaulle), and recurring lists of what is In and what is Out might have had difficulty making the Harvard Lampoon. A cover like the tear-stained photograph of John F. Kennedy, which ran less than a year after his assassination, was patently concocted for shock. Another cover showed a morose nude jammed, derriere-first, into a garbage...
Epstein charges that the original document was filled with dozens of historical inaccuracies as well as many tasteless references to Johnson...
...Your otherwise commendable coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict was marred by the insertion of an unfunny and utterly tasteless collection of American-Jewish humor under the title "Blintzkrieg" [June 16]. "Witticisms," Voltaire once said, "do not accord with massacres...
...Kiss, 84, inventor of Ex-Lax, the world's first and still largest selling (1966 company sales: over $10 million) palatable purgative, a Hungarian immigrant who worked his way through pharmacy college, then proceeded to rescue countless kiddies from the ghastly grasp of castor oil by mixing a tasteless powder called phenolphthalein and chocolate flavoring into Ex-Lax, a name he adapted from a Hungarian parliamentary term (ex lex), meaning an extraordinary suspension of governmental activity; of a heart attack; in Atlantic Beach...
Surrounding Caesar in this tasteless Runyonesque rehash are such holders of the borscht belt as Jan Murray, Ben Blue, Bill Dana, George Jessel and Mickey Deems. Of them all, Jessel is the only one comic enough to deserve the name-and that only by parodying his own nasal eulogizing at the services of a policeman who was trampled to death during a movie premiere...