Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major stories in this week's issue deal with radically different kinds of American dream machines. One concerns the immensely successful girlie magazines, now under pressure because of the Supreme Court's new ruling on pornography; the other reports on an empire no pornography ruling could ever touch, that of Walt Disney Productions...
...Gallery could draw, what could flop? Among those wondering must, have been the original Gallery staff, many of whom have left to found new imitations. Gallery's first editor, James L. Spurlock, a Playboy alumnus, is now at work on Touch, which he describes as "a combination of Cosmopolitan and Playboy"; 500,000 copies of the first issue are scheduled to descend on newsstands in late August. Ex-Gallery Associate Publisher Stephan L. Saunders left to found Genesis, the first issue of which appeared in June. Financed by Rocky Aoki, owner of a string of successful Japanese restaurants...
...world in Fantasia; Pinocchio's search for his father, taking him through the grotesque amusement park on the island of lost boys and into the belly of a whale-these sequences strummed psychic chords that live-action comedies like The Barefoot Executive (1971) do not aspire to touch...
...phonograph, but notes how they destroyed the uniqueness of the moment, broadening experience but leveling it. Radio and television multiplied communication, but made it an increasingly private experience. Supermarkets offered the consumer an abundance of choice, and franchises the assurance of at least modest uniform quality, but the touch and smell of food became trapped in paperboard and plastic...
...touch again soon. Meantime, I'm sending along three copies of the sound-track album and a bunch of posters. Superstar is really flip city...