Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themes sometimes got lost in the variations. During World War II, Esquire concentrated on sports, pinups and adventure fiction; Gingrich, who had left the magazine, had to be invited back to give it intellectual tone again. At this point Hugh Hefner, a circulation promotion writer at Esquire decided to start a magazine of his own, freely borrowing Esquire's formula while gambling that the courts might now be more lenient about nudity. Instead of Esky the bug-eyed lecher as a trademark, Hefner created the Bunny. Facing Playboy's runaway success but unwilling to become a "skin book...
...know who they are, they want more meaningful vacations, careers and relationships." They also want to be "better consumers." (That oldtime Esquire merchandising again!) Moffitt is hardly nihilistic. He wants Esquire to provide helpful guidance to behavior that would leave a fellow "feeling right, feeling good about himself." Back somewhere in the genes, the bug-eyed Esky must be rolling his eyes about that...
...very young lover in Manhattan, was 13 when she began her movie career as the younger sister of the character played by her own sister Margaux in a gaudy and brutal film called Lipstick. Linda Manz, the tough little New York City street kid whose scarred face and back-alley accent gave a saving balance to the prettiness of Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, is the oldest of the lot at nearly 18, but she looks the youngest; in the Malick film, shot three years ago, she seems no older than twelve. Brooke Shields, 14, appeared in Alice, Sweet...
...mood on the Pretty Baby set was quite different. Shields recalls that Director Malle "usually talked to my mother, not me. She'd come back and tell me what he said. He was afraid to talk to me, I think. In the beginning, on the set, no one knew what to say to me. Then I tried to talk to the people on the set more as an adult than a little kid. After that it was fun. In the beginning Malle directed me more than the others, but soon we were all treated the same...
...reasons of self-defense, to be cute and lovable. They turn into the celluloid brats who curdled their way through most Hollywood films of the '30s and '40s. Small wonder it always seemed so meet and funny when the toe of W.C. Fields' brogue met the back of Baby LeRoy's diaper...