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Topless B.B. Signora Tattilo, who has the sleek, confident demeanor of a successful public relations woman, was once a successful public relations woman. In 1965 she and her husband, now separated, broke into publishing with a weekly for children called Big. A year later they started Men, a vulgar weekly collection on newsprint of photographs of nude women often purchased from Scandinavia-or provided by the agents of Italian starlets. Playmen was started in 1967, and looked enough like Playboy, which was then banned in Italy, to attract buyers. Except for the European style of its nudes and a blessed...
...expression of scorn (if it was that: the musical's title indicates parody) for what others hold sacred. The "sacred" is a function of the collective consciousness; as such it is bound at intervals to fall into decay and to be visited with expressions of collective dissent, like vulgar satire...
Writer Malcolm considers togetherness "vulgar and stupid," but she warns that feminism "may be an even more invidious cause of unhappiness and discontent." It may well be, if some of its extreme tenets are adopted. But chances are that society will heed only the movement's legitimate demands. All the rest-motivated by what Helen Lawrenson calls the "splenetic frenzy of hatred for men" voiced by "these sick, silly creatures"-is likely to remain unacceptable to all but the sickest and the silliest...
...interesting to note our President's declaration of victory after the Nov. 3 election [Nov. 16]. The facts, as we all see, hardly show a vast support of Nixon's policies or a swallowing of his vulgar campaign tactics...
Much as we hate to add to the expressions of rage that characterize our times, we feel that we must say something about Martin Kaplan's review of The Greatest Musical Ever Sung (CRIMSON, 11/19). Kaplan's review as well as Durang's play are among the most vulgar and offensive things to have come to our attention here at Harvard...