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billionaire German industrialist; in Carinthia, Austria. Flick--whose father was jailed by the Allied War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg for using slave labor in munitions and other factories--became famous for an early-1980s scandal over huge donations made to German political parties by managers at the family's conglomerate. The Flick Affair, as it became known, forever linked his name with the issue of shady influences in politics...
...Hefner: Well, it is the return of the bunnies. It is the first club/casino since the early 1980s, and it comes at a time in which the Playboy brand is very hot again. I think the clubs were popular against all odds for a quarter of a century, and the whole nightclub phenomenon ran its course. When the 1980s turned conservative politically and sexually with Reagan in the White House and the arrival of AIDS, I think there was a backlash to the social-sexual change that took place in the latter part...
...Hefner: I guess I still had some hope. I think I tried it a second time because I'd had the stroke in the mid-1980s and I was feeling my years and my mortality, and I think that I sought it as kind of a safe harbor. And I worked very hard at it, and I was faithful to it. The fact that it didn't work had to do with the relationship and her own insecurities, et cetera. I think there are simply many roads to Mecca, many ways of living your life morally and ethically, and when...
...years past, candidates might not have bothered to make an international call to stump for money and votes from Americans across the world. Americans living abroad were not even permitted to vote in U.S. elections before the 1980s, and since then their ballots have been viewed by many of those living abroad as marginal to most races. Yet millions of Americans are living overseas these days - an estimated 50,000 in Paris alone - and the numbers are growing. This year some candidates have taken notice...
...Where Some Designers Get Their Ideas This season collections had a wide range of inspirations, from 18th century painters to 1980s hipsters- 9/14/06