Word: maximalism
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...never really gone away, as any two-month-old or longtime viewer of certain premium cable channels will tell you. And yet a heightened fascination with things bosomy seems to have infected the world of men's magazines--the general-interest sort, I mean. This is largely due to Maxim, the British import, which, in its year-and-a-half of American existence, has shaken the world of cigar love and five steps to great...
...cover of any successful magazine is a shrewd advertisement for what lies inside. Maxim's each month features one buxom starlet or another leaning over or hunching her shoulders or toying with her bikini top. Inside, between pseudo service articles on, say, how to sneak into the Super Bowl or date women in prison, are pictures of more chesty starlets, along with the occasional female athlete who could pass for one. It should be noted that most of these images are far less risque than a Varga girl...
...during Maxim's short life, its editorial vision has boosted its circulation over 500%. The magazine is now guaranteeing advertisers a circulation of some 950,000 copies, which means it has leapfrogged past Details, its most direct competitor for twentysomething guys (circ. 500,000), as well as titles aimed at older fellows, like GQ (circ. 700,000) and, of course, poor old Esquire (circ. 650,000), which was probably the greatest magazine of the 1960s but has since become to men's magazines what Turkey is to NATO...
...magazines were loading up on earnest service pieces to respond to the success of the Cosmopolitan for guys, Men's Health (which currently boasts a circulation of 1.45 million)? Yes, but now all the fellows are slapping cleavage on their covers--in homage, it would appear, to Maxim. Whereas Details used to feature the stubbly likes of Stephen Dorff, the current number is graced by Elizabeth Hurley, touched up in such an unsubtle way that her breasts fairly leap off the page; it's as if they were eyeballs in a Tex Avery cartoon, ogling themselves. The accompanying profile opens...
...this political to-and-fro-ing doesn't impress Goodrich's widow Teresa much. "He was incensed by the way he was treated," she recalls. "It offended his sense of justice." To her, the obvious solution lies in the simple maxim that her husband lived by: Do right by people...