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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painful. Keir Dullea appears as the troubled marquis, and his vulpine, immobile face helps him to range between anger ("Don't you ever say 'Enough' to me!") and pitiful pleading ("But if ... I changed?") with indifference. The orgies are only slightly more titillating than a Playboy centerfold, and a good deal less polished. According to this film, the marauis' most notable contribution to esoteric eroticism was spreading jam on women's nipples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Child's Garden of Sade | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...Negro girl. She has long legs, is apt to be very thin and wiry. That is the look of now." It is also the look of Naomi Sims, 21, a 5-ft. 10-in. Pittsburgher whose other vital statistics (32-23-34) will never qualify her for a Playboy centerfold, but make her currently one of the most ubiquitous and highest-paid fashion models in the world. Two years ago, Naomi was studying psychology on a scholarship at New York University. Now she is the girl in the A. T. & T. ads ("Fashions by Bill Blass, Telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Black Look in Beauty | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...through it, and I tried to follow it. It was a little bit unusual, a little bit different than anything I had ever read in newspapers. So they just moved in here, and the first issue they put out here they all went into the can. They had a centerfold with the four-letter words in there. I thought, if they want to do it, it's all right, the hell, it's not my paper. I wish they had been here thirty years ago, they'd have thought my paper was a Sunday School sheet. I was in here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fred Shibley--Tumbler and Sandblaster--Started a Newspaper and Was Bankrupted By Catholic Churches and Urban Renewal | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

Like many chief executives, God was henpecked by his secretary, a busybody of a woman named Myrtle who insisted on removing the centerfold picture of Playboy before allowing him to read the magazine. He was bored stiff bv the routine of his job, especially Sunday-morning "tune-in duty," when he monitored church services on earth He sometimes complained of the lonely burden he bore as ruler of the universe. "The buck, as Mr. Truman said, stops here, ' God wrote. "And I mean it really stops here. I would give my omniscience to be able to pass just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Word: God's Diaries | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

Butler distributed most of the initial press run of 37,000 copies free on college campuses. He offers a year's subscription for $2; along with it comes a set of Square posters, one of which, extolling the return of peace through victory, appears as the centerfold in the first issue. Unlike most such offerings, it is not calculated to titillate. All that the poster shows nude is a hand, and all that the hand is doing is pointing, thumb up, to the slogan "Victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Super Square | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

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