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...Drinkin's drinkin' "smiled back the novelist with a curl of the lip corresponding to an aire of Irishness he had taken on for the last part of the evening...
...members built rhetoric on the atrocities of discrimination. They said they stood for justice and against exploitation of human beings. And yet how easily they ignored the only group whose fortitude truly challengs the foundatios of prejudicial thinking, whose political aims so closely reflect those the caucus gave lip service to− women. So firmly entrenched are we in the roots of prejudice that even the discriminated against act in turn to discrimate. Does anyone doubt it that if Shirley Chisholm had been a man, the first black political caucus would have supported the first black political candidate for presidential...
...Lip Service. Desperate if not deep signs of change are becoming visible. Now in its 19th year, Playboy is maintaining its posture of dauntless virility while trying to be less of a male chauvinist pig about it. Recently "The Playboy Adviser"-Hefner's answer to "Dear Abby"-piously rebuked a reader who asked if Playboy would help him persuade his wife to give up her career. "To deprive her of a chance to feel valuable to herself and society above and beyond the roles of wife and mother would be not only selfish but cruel," the "Adviser" preached...
...Playboy Forum," the magazine's letters column, also does conspicuous Lib lip service, especially on the issue of legalized abortion, though the guffaws of pregnancy jokes continue to echo from other pages. But other questions seem to trouble Playboy readers-and the editor who selects which letters to print-far more. How much does one tip a blackjack dealer? What is malmsey wine? How does a fellow get-and get rid of-the crabs? Why do Japanese girls think American men smell bad? (Answer: carnivorous Americans eat ten times as much meat as Japanese and their odors prove...
...tools of Chevalier's trade were as familiar as the bowler, cane and flat-footed waddle of his contemporary, Charlie Chaplin; almost always there was a straw hat tilted rakishly over a roguish blue eye, a jutting lower lip, a slightly protruding derriere, and that gay boulevardier's swagger. When famed Director Ernst Lubitsch offered him the role of a prince in Hollywood, Chevalier laughingly declined, saying: "With my swinging walk, I can only play commoners...