SCIENTIFIC NOVELTY

Playboy wasn't the only magazine that struggled over what to do with Knowlton's classified ads. In 1987 the advertisement had caused a major upheaval at The Nation, when the liberal magazine's new publisher, Arthur L. Carter, tried to ban the ad. The staff was horrified-in part by Carter's heavy-handed managerial style, but also because they felt a kinship to the poster and its values. In a joint letter to Carter sent on October 30 of that year, the staff called the poster "harmless" and explained to their new boss that "we view it in the context of a tradition of poster art in the United States that goes back to the early years of this century and that flowered particularly during the 1960s. As far as we're concerned, the ad and the poster have a countercultural flavor."... The Best TV + Movies From Around the Globe. Award winners, festival and audience favorites from up-and-coming creators and established auteurs from around the world.

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