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...December 55), a Playboy employee whose name stayed on the masthead for a decade or so as readers? liaison. She cued the notion of the Playmate as hometown houri: not a showgirl or call girl but the girl next door (or next-office), the succulent embodiment of ordinary Americana. The job of posing for a girlie magazine was now not a shame for a young woman but a kind of honor, like being chosen Homecoming Queen. What John Skow wrote of the Playboy Club Bunny - that she was ?half geisha and half double-malted? - applied even more to the Playmate...
Thus were born the new American services, which since 1990 have fought five wars--in Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq--with outstanding success. Even a superpower, however, is only as good as the forces through which it exercises that power. But Pax Americana, like Pax Britannica, is guaranteed by a body of servicemen and -women who have no equal elsewhere on the globe...
This writing gig, this is my Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where it is easy to be bold and honest and confrontational. But in my real life, I have always been shy and wussy, and Mr. Rogers' gentle-Americana Buddhism made me feel as if that was good. He knew that the only reassurance in the face of the Sendakian horrors of childhood--the uncertainty, the lack of control--is acceptance. His neighborhood wasn't a utopia--he lived alone in a small apartment with a fish tank--but a community where every type of person was nice to him because...
...BACK-PAX AMERICANA: Historian John Keegan on the soldier as U.S. ambassador...
...seem to mind being dragged around by their bouncing, panting, ranting offspring, who beg and plead for a $70 miniature tepee or $38 Victorian commode. The genius behind American Girl's high-end products is that moms feel good about dropping a lot of cash on low-tech, wholesome Americana. Most of the dolls depict 9year-old fictional heroines at various points in American history, including Kaya, a Nez Perce tribe member in 1764, and Josefina, a Latina on hand for the opening of the Santa Fe Trail. The company also sells six novels about each of the historical dolls...