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Leon Kaplan is getting tense. With a deadline fast approaching, he is madly trying to buff up his term paper on John Updike's Rabbit at Rest. The pressure isn't entirely new to Kaplan--he's taken plenty of exams before and passed in many papers--but it's been about six decades since he was a bright-eyed Yale undergraduate in the class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to School | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...longer was the Playmate a triumph of good genes, a pretty smile and a light workout. Now when you looked at a Playmate you had to think of the plastic surgeon who made her that way. Bette Midler once made a joke about Bruce Springsteen in his 80s buff phase: ?Nice body, Bruce. Where?d you buy it?? Same goes for many of the Playmates of the past 20 years. The 50th Anniversary Playmate, Colleen Shannon, is a Pamela Anderson clone, a pneumatic cartoon drawn by Alberto Vargas or Frank Frazetta - a sex-toy doll inflated to Macy?s Thanksgiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Your Grandfather?s Playboy | 1/3/2004 | See Source »

...British poet famously, ironically wrote. You might argue with his date--in movies the sexual revolution came a little later--but not with his basic insight. Since then, though, under the camera's avid scrutiny, onscreen sex has become an activity restricted to movie stars who are young and buff, with the older folks left pretty much standing in the corner, all buttoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Sex: Love Among the Ruins | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...genetic females in the crowd seem equally in tune with Monroe’s iconic status. “She’s a larger than life figure who’s very tragic,” says Dawn Kipphut, a Cambridge movie buff who works in customer service. “I mean, she died alone. And she had to change a lot about herself to become the icon...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gentlemen Prefer To Be Blondes | 11/20/2003 | See Source »

...partied like a state-school student with an “I brake for beer” flag on his pickup truck at the Harvard State University throw-down on Monday. To honor his two and a half hours of college life, Gossip Guy brings you busty lies, buff innuendos and sexually active rumors...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Gossip Guy | 11/13/2003 | See Source »

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