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Pretending that the swimsuit issue is different from Playboy is dangerous. By masquerading as mainstream, as Maxim and Details do, it allows readers to duck issues of exploitation. Just because you have to look through wet bathing suits to see nipples doesn't mean you should escape all feelings of shame and secrecy. To see these images, you should have to walk to the back of the video store, through those western-style swinging doors that make you think of a brothel. You should have to sneak the merchandise home wrapped in something inconspicuous. That's why I'm throwing...
Given the strict time frame, it's no wonder that all these students have taken to heart the maxim about first impressions--you only get one chance. Well, until next semester and next shopping period, in any case...
...back to construction work with other men, mostly because construction is hard and screaming "Nice ass" never seems to work. No, we're not men like our fathers: confident, stern and single-handedly supporting a family. But we're happier and more pleasant in our permanent adolescence reading Maxim and watching The Man Show. It definitely beats going...
...others, it attempts to be the defining film concerning love at the end of the millennium (cringe). In the inimitable style of a Calvin Klein commercial, actors speak directly into the camera, offering insightful comments such as "it's just sex" or "sex without love is violence," a maxim which, repeated the fourth time is simply hilarious. From these two juxtaposed themes, we watch tale of one evening in the night-club hopping, heavy drinking 20-somethings, all obviously (or supposedly) gorgeous, all largely indistinguishable from one another...
Former mayor and current councillor Reeves repeated the Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill maxim, "All politics is local," adding that Cambridge politics is a one-on-one, incremental process...