Magazine Covers of the Week

Ever wonder what historians of the future are going to think about our era when they see magazine covers like these? After all, there was a time within the memory of many living people when a pregnant woman was rarely seen on a magazine cover unless she was fully clothed. So these covers are supposed to suggest... what? The type of outfits these mothers wore during conception?

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Brrr! Gabrielle Reese really needs to get a warmer exercise outfit.

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Oh, how quickly we forget.

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In 1967, marriages like this were front-page news in America. Nowadays, few Americans pay attention to them anymore save for a few reactionaries and while such marriages may not be universally popular in America, few Americans doubt their legality.

Indeed, the one such problem with such marriages is that though they were the subject of a lot of idealistic rhetoric back in the day, they were still subject to the same human flaws which create problems in intraracial marriages. Of course, intraracial marriages receive a lot of idealistic rhetoric in their favor too and no one thinks it bad that such marriages sometimes fail despite the efforts of both partners. And I suspect some of the marriages recently legalized in New York will ultimately fail for similar reasons. (Then again, I suspect some of them will succeed.)

I could argue that one can avoid the whole mess by simply not getting married in the first place but I've seen too many quarrels between couples who never got legally married to pretend that's an adequate solution. After all, it's usually not the marriage license that causes the problems. It's the two people who sign it.

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This time I post the notorious Time magazine cover from 1975 that almost ended Bruce Springsteen's career. After all this time, it's kinda hard to see what all the fuss is about, especially since rock no longer seems to be a very fashionable music genre and anyway, it's not like a similar Time cover destroyed Linda Ronstadt's music career.

Yes, Springsteen is still around and making music but he no longer dominates the music scene the way he did back in the 1980s, which is a real shame because I always liked his music. Though I do remember feeling like a sucker when I first bought his “Born to Run” single back in the 1970s and no one else I knew seemed to know he even existed.

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I don't even want to think about what this implies about Bogie.

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From November 22, 1993, comes an issue whose cover asks the question to which many of us are still awaiting an answer.

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From April 1971:



I guess it's a good thing that things are so different now...

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Cinefantastique Vol. 10 No. 1
Fitness June 1995
Harper's Bazaar 1943
Mad April 1971
Time July 4, 1969
Time Oct. 27, 1975
Time Oct. 16, 1978
Time Nov. 22, 1993
Time Sept. 29, 1967
Vanity Fair August 1991

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From October 16, 1978, comes an issue that begs the question: How long is "soon"?

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Is it wrong of me that I actually miss this magazine? Oh, I suspect it may still be around in some online form but it was never the same after the death of its original publisher, Frederick S. Clarke, so it may as well be gone.

This is the very first issue I bought and I wish very much I had held on to it. It was one of the first magazines to show me that it was possible to talk about my favorite sci-fi and horror movies in an intelligent fashion -- and yes, that was way before the Internet when seeing something like this in print was still a big deal.