Word: mailers
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...connection was everywhere evident to observers of the Playboy phenomenon. Examining the infrastructure of the Bunny costume worn by waitresses at the Playboy Clubs of the 60s, Norman Mailer called it ?a phallic brassiere - each breast looked like the big bullet on the front bumper of a Cadillac...
...Mailer, who would write the keynote piece for the magazine?s 50th anniversary issue, was no feminist; he would tangle loudly and instructively with them over the years. But he knew the drill: that staring at women for an erotic rush demeans and dehumanizes them, robs them of the equality they deserve. On the Dick Cavett Show in the 70s, feminist Susan Brownmiller told Hefner his magazine exploited sex. To which he replied, ?Playboy exploits sex like Sports Illustrated exploits sports!? (Yep: It?s Sex Illustrated...
...50th anniversary issue. Naturally it has has a retro air, with photos of favorite old Playmates and actresses who undressed for the magazine. But some of the issue?s contributors aren?t toddlers either: Mailer (80), Hunter S. Thompson (66), Frank Gehry (74), George Plimpton (76 when he died last year). The Interview subject is Jack Nicholson (66). The main profile is of Alfred C. Kinsey, the sex researcher whose ?Sexual Behavior of the Human Female? was published the year Playboy first hit the newsstands...
...agree that Arnold has his triumph-of-the-will side. So do Madonna, P. Diddy and Norman Mailer. Beyond a consuming ambition and an unshakable faith in his destiny, what is he about? Even longtime friends say he can be a little mysterious. "If you follow Arnold carefully, he always has a new circle of people," says Butler. "He's not keen on having people get too close to him and know too much about him before he moves on to the next group." Or you can look at it the way Lou Pitt does. Schwarzenegger's former agent says...
...teenage soldiers at the checkpoint call their outpost 25 miles outside Monrovia the God Bless You Gate--because, says Sergeant Kofa Mailer, 17, "when you pass by this gate, God bless you." The gate is made from a long reed and festooned with human bones. A femur hangs beside a pelvis and near a piece of a vertebra. The guards at the God Bless You Gate are members of a Small Boys Unit, government-employed child soldiers. They say they are generals, lieutenants and sergeants, but even with their AK-47s, they look more like schoolchildren. Their leader, General James...