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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hefner had hoped to adapt the clubs, established in the 1960s as havens for male entertainment and dining, to an altered business world in which sexism had become unfashionable. But not even toned-down decor, less nudity and the hiring of male Bunnies could bring back Playboy's heydays of the 1970s, when 22 clubs flourished around the country. Hefner presided over the closing of three company-operated clubs in 1986. Two of the last three franchises, in Des Moines and Omaha, were closed in May. There are no plans, however, to shut down five clubs in Asia, where business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEISURE: No More Cottontails | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...Teddy) Wharton, a hale fellow and manic-depressive whom her good friend Henry James suspected of being "cerebrally compromised." On the other hand, the Harvard-educated Fullerton, some three years her junior, had drifted into his 40s without accomplishing much of anything except a string of ex- lovers, male and female. Yet she listened with a lover's ears to the grand plans of her perpetually promising gentleman: "And when you spoke of your uncertain future, your longing to break away & do the work you really like, didn't you see how my heart broke with the thought that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Public Triumph, Private Pain THE LETTERS OF EDITH WHARTON Edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis; Scribner's; 654 pages; $29.95 | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...heat is all in the suggestion and the styling, of course. On the surface, everything is on the up-and-up. If it weren't, Travis would not have scored the invitation last year to become the youngest male member of the Grand Ole Opry. The first time he set foot on the stage of Country Central, he recalls, "no stage, anywhere, it don't matter the amount of people in the audience, no stage has made me feel like the Opry, has scared me as bad. By the time I finished my first two songs and came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trippin' Through The Crossroads | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...through a church convention in Detroit. Under the plan, a woman bishop would maintain jurisdiction over all of her flock but would not necessarily minister to everyone. Any congregation that rejected the notion of a woman bishop could petition the diocese to come under the special care of a male "Episcopal Visitor" who would substitute for the spurned woman prelate at Communion, baptisms and confirmations. Visitors could also fill in for male bishops whose support for women bishops offends traditionalists. To make matters even more complex, the regular bishops, be they male or female, would still make the periodic pastoral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: When Is a Bishop Not a Bishop? | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Although the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), the state agency that is investigating a Harvard student's complaint against one of the nine all-male final clubs, is facing a severe budget cut, thousands of pending cases will not be delayed, a state official said yesterday...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: MCAD Budget Difficulties Won't Delay Fly Club Case | 7/12/1988 | See Source »

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