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Article: The covers.
- Article from:
- Esquire
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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A GALLARY OF FIFTY-ONE LASTING IMAGES including the champ, the tomato can, and the caviar-covered woman.
A cover is often more than just the face of a magazine. In December 1963 it cost Esquire nearly $1 million in pulled advertising ...
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... In November 1970, it inspired complaints that a portrait of Lieutenant Calley with Vietnamese children is "like showing Hitler in a synagogue" ...
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... And in December 2000, it incited a furios letter-writing campaign by Rush Limbaugh fans--before it was even published.
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