Pretty amazing, right? Inside the issue: an excellent dishy gossip report from Hollywood headlined Moses and the Money Changers (yikes) and this actually very spectacular report on Ray Ryan's Mount Kenya Safari Club. (Ray Ryan, you will remember, blew up in a pretty spectacular unsolved car-bombing in 1977.) Simpler times! Sort of!
Monday, January 11, 2010
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I can hear Pete and Kenny tittering.
TITtering?
Heh-heh. Heh heh heh ...
The white woman bottom right looks like Peggy Olsen wearing one of Betty Draper's dresses.
T&A much?
Sure, tease us with an unsolved car bombing, Choire. More unsolved mysteries!
That cover Looks Like a palin Republican's worst nightmare.
Yes, with poor whitey getting squeezed off the page and barely enough food for her little ones.
(Although, to her credit, she's still reading the nutrition information.)
Remember when there were things like serenity? Me neither.
Love the woman toting the two pantsless toddlers as seen from behind. That image would never appear on the cover of a (legal) magazine today. And this was 1960?!
Indeed. I wonder, when Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity appeal to their flocks to weep for the good old days, how those respective flocks would react to the good old days' picture of a big, full black boobie on the newsstands (with the OTHER one showing *GASP* breastfeeding!)?
No need to wonder; it's the same script.
The Canadians apparently issued an arrest warrant for the artist, Boris Chaliapan, because the cover was "pornographic and has ruined the morals of North American youth." And the art-loving NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller: "I don't know the man, but I would yield to no one in my abhorrence of these dastardly human beings who would corrupt our American heritage and let the virus of pornographic Communism seep into our red blood stream."
But that Time STILL published it! Never today.
There was a time when many a middle-class American household subscribed to National Geographic. 1960 would fall within that.
Absolutely right. Strictly for the nature shots, though. Not the black boobies. That would be titillation of the worst kind.
Beck and Hannity have FLOCKS?
Hm I remember seeing plenty of "indecorous" photos in NG. It was folks from North America and Europe you wouldn't see in the "state of nature". People in the tropics and subtropics (Africa, New Guinea and Pacific islands, Australia, South America) were expected to be half-naked, which seems to have neutralized the censorial instinct. Those people don't know any better, after all. At least until missionaries visit.
"The resulting feud was something like watching a cigar-store Indian chasing a tufted titmouse with a crab net."
My how times have changed.
As a newish parent, all I can think about a magazine cover with that many (probably) diaperless babies is, "My GOD, imagine all the shit and piss flying everywhere!"
It's probably easier to toilet train them that way. When the stuff is running down their legs all smelly-like.
Hold the kid out as far away from yourself as possible.
Damn women and their irresponsible population explosions...
YES I was just thinking the same thing. Where are the MEN on that cover?
Sillies! Men don't care for children!
It's like someone searched under Norman Rockwell's bed.