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Fascination with the 70s seems to be undying, and while I have nothing bad to say about that, since I am as prone as anyone else of my generation to stare in helpless wonder at something like the above mixology guide,
I think it is important to focus our attention on the early 70s, when the Age of Aquarius finally dawned for suburban squares who brought old-fashioned tidiness and tailoring to the counterculture's kaleidoscopic explosion of color. Because this is as good as people ever looked and ever will look. Just look at these people. Maybe they are all screwing their dentists and nannies and getting the clap and living in a spiritual void--they're still floating on an ocean of booze and glamour. People these days--especially men--are afraid of color and texture. Everything is all tastefully muted mustards and olives. God forbid we should drop our guard for a moment and forget to not be fabulous.
PREVIOUS FABULOUS COVERS OF THE WEEK:
The Face of the Ancient Orient
What comes in a box?
The Age of Reason
The Coming of the French Revolution
Andre the Courier
Hide-Out
Brideshead Revisited
The Golden Book Sherlock Holmes
Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, vol. 5
God's Smuggler
Mixology
The Score
The Frazer Acquittal
Wife or Death
Wild Game Cookbook
Crime Patrol No.9
Boy's Choice
The Value of Fairness
Cancelled Japanese Stamps
The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues
Scoop
Barchester Towers
Fathers and Sons
Evil Genius
Early Man in the New World
Camp Craft
The Man in the Net
7 Types of Ambiguity
Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust
The Idea, a novel told in woodcuts
The Simple Art of Murder
History Begins at Sumer, featuring the typography of Edward Gorey
Marvel Spectacular featuring the art of Jack Kirby
The Age of Analysis
Metropolis: An American City in Photographs
Engineering is Like This
The Ponder Heart
Don Martin Digs Deeper
The Golden Book Encyclopedia of Natural Science (Volume 9, Kinglets to Meteor)
The Mountlake Terrace High School 1964 yearbook
Take a Letter: A Cyclopedia of Business & Social Correspondence
The Vice Lords: Warriors of the Street
Islam and The Golden Home and High School Encyclopedia
Munakata
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