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Alfred Hitchcock's Rope caused high-fiber movie chills, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead was the top best-seller, the nation did the ''Twelfth Street Rag,'' and Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town was rilly big on TV.


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Posted Sep 04, 1992 | Published in issue #134 Sep 04, 1992 | Order Article Reprints