Word: centerfold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the individuals whom I met through work in New York and Los Angeles soap actors, centerfold models, "jiggly" actresses, makeup artists and hairdressers altered my thinking more positively. Although many of them conformed to unflattering stereotypes, up close a surprising number conveyed an intelligence and integrity which were otherwise undetectable. What made their virtues even more impressive was the lack of ostentation with which so many of them handled their careers, despite the intense public interest and scrutiny they aroused. Behind the lightweight images were often levelheaded hard workers who convinced me over the years just how unreliable...
...notion for setting up the erotic phone system came from High Society Publisher Gloria Leonard, a former night club manager and X-rated movie star. Leonard employs the models of the magazine's centerfold, women with names like Serena, Becky and Holly-O, to do the dirty talking. Says she: "While the talk avoids the seven words Comedian George Carlin has said cannot be uttered on TV, the messages are nevertheless highly suggestive...
...women's amateur track and field club that is considered one of the country's best. Says Wilt, who agreed to strip down and lather up in baby oil as a way of promoting women's sports: "I had other offers to be a centerfold. I could be bigger than any of them. About eight or nine pages bigger...
...award is Judy Blume, 44, godmother of upscale adolescent realism. Nineteen million of Blume's 14 teen tales are currently in paperback. She tackles social and sexual mores with sprightly straight talk. In one of her books, a group of twelve-year-old girls stare at the centerfold in a copy of Playboy, marveling at the model's breasts. Exclaims one flat-chested admirer: "Look at the size of her! They're huge...
...sooner had Ed Koch announced that he was going to run for Governor of New York than Playboy magazine hit the stands with an interview as sizzling as any centerfold. The attraction: the New York mayor holding forth on everything from Black Leader Jesse Jackson ("bad news"), his own alleged racism ("b.s."), to cracks about all life outside his city. "Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's wasting your life ... Rural America? This is a joke...