Word: oui
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distinction in gender between "son" and "grandchild" is not accidental. While Playboy is male-oriented, Oui is supposed to speak to both sexes. European stringers and photographers are contributing news and nudes from the Continent. As one of two co-editors, Hefner hired Jean-Louis Ginibre, 38, from Lui, France's own answer to Playboy. The other co-editor is Jon Carroll, 28, a long-haired, full-bearded alumnus of Rolling Stone and former editor of the now defunct counterculture magazine Rags. "We will not be as polished as Playboy," Carroll promised. "Certainly there will be male nudity...
...keep the kids? Hefner thinks that he knows. Enter, early in September, the first issue of his now, new monthly Oui. "We have a Playboy philosophy," Hefner told TIME Correspondent Burton Pines, "but I don't expect that there will be a Oui philosophy. Oui will concentrate on the joy of living, while Playboy concentrates a tremendous amount of space on social problems . . . Playboy is still me, but Oui not so much. In a way Playboy was my son, but Oui is a grandchild...
...ratified by the French Parliament. But Pompidou had political ends in mind. One was to demonstrate by popular vote his shift away from De Gaulle's old and increasingly unpopular anti-British foreign policy. Another was to increase Pompidou's own luster. To whip up a large oui vote, he made his first provincial tour as President, but crowds on a 30-town tour of Lorraine were neither large nor passionate-in part, perhaps, because Pompidou's speech-making was mediocre...
...Communist Party ordered its partisans to vote non, in order to signify their rejection both of European capitalism and Pompidou's "social regression." Socialists, on the other hand, decided to abstain, and parties of the center were divided. It remained for the Gaullists to turn out the decisive oui and thereby provide Pompidou with demonstrable proof of his popular support when European leaders meet in Paris next October to draw up terms for turning the Six into...
...early '30s he became a very highly paid American movie idol. Even Greta Garbo, for a fleeting moment, once felt that it might be nice to be with him. "Do you know how to swim, Monsieur Chevalier?" Greta asked at a dinner party in Hollywood. "Mais oui," replied Chevalier hesitantly. "Then let's go for a dip in the ocean right now," said the Swedish actress. "But it's midnight," objected the Frenchman. "Le Pacifique est glacial." Garbo never talked to Chevalier again...