Word: centerfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editors advertise the centerfold as the first of its kind showing both a man and a woman. Yet the picture is as sexist as the rest of the issue. The man is shown covered by a brown sheet and in the shadows, only his face and arm visible. The woman is bathed in light, breasts and vagina exposed, taking up a full three-quarters of the frame. After all, they're not in this for their health...
...first issue does not succeed on that score. The centerfold is nonsexist in showing a man and woman in bed, but it is actually a copout; while she is fully exposed in strong light, he is in shadows and coyly covered with a sheet...
...cares to remember. His face, at least, was memorable-a rubber stamp for Marlon Brando's. But his name did not become a household word until last spring, when he posed in the hirsute buff for Cosmopolitan magazine. Now, unliberated housewives shamelessly tape Burt Reynolds' sinewy centerfold to their refrigerators the way their hubbies paper tool sheds with "Playmate" pullouts...
...most "in" designer of all, Halston, who numbers Jackie Onassis and Candice Bergen among his clients, believes that "the well-exercised body should not be encased." But he wisely concentrates on baring the safest female area for general display-the back. One slinky black jersey by Halston has a centerfold cutout scooped so low that it frames the lady's sacrum, covering only her ilium...
Paul du Feu, 36, British Cosmo's April centerfold pinup (with airbrushed navel), construction worker and estranged husband of Feminist Author Germaine Greer, was in Manhattan 3 to line up a publisher. He wants to write a book about "liberation from liberation. I like romance, and I want to write about how it is an aphrodisiac," he explained. As for Women's Lib, "It's just another form of puritanism. I think it makes life rather dull...