Word: piggybacker
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...Unsurprisingly, publishers tried to piggyback on Playboy's winning formula. Penthouse magazine, an upstart competitor formed by Bob Guccione in 1965, closely mirrored Playboy in format, with a lascivious mix of interviews, fiction features, cartoons and narrative pieces surrounding the buxom centerfolds. But in its choice of images, Penthouse lacked Playboy's sexual subtlety. (Professional competition aside, Hef and Guccione actively disliked each other; while Guccione promoted the rumor that Hef was a "closet queen," the Playboy publisher, noting Guccione's cultivation of a similarly decadent lifestyle, remarked that "If I were he, I'd want...
...promote weight loss would be fairly easy. Already, the Reach Out and Read Program, a nationwide non-profit literacy effort begun by pediatricians at the Boston Medical Center in 1989, encourages reading by providing books to preschool children each time they visit the doctor's office. Why not piggyback messages about healthy lifestyle habits on this existing reading framework? "This study makes me wonder if we could do that with older kids as well," says Hassink. "We are already thinking at our hospital about mixing in positive lifestyle books with what the kids read." It's a win-win situation...
Your best pick up line: Would you like to give me a naked piggyback ride...
...Musical Conversation” moderated by Tom Everett, the director of Harvard Jazz Bands. Her residency culminates Saturday in a concert with the Harvard Jazz Bands in tribute to famed swing composer Mary Lou Williams. As Everett puts it, “We are sort of piggyback riding on a Music Department program here.” Serving as the musical director of the Mary Lou Williams Collective and having portrayed her in the 1996 movie “Kansas City,” Allen has a history of affinity for Williams. “All of her work...
...making us feel lousy: once inside the body, they infect cells very efficiently. But they are so common most people have some tolerance to them, and so the immune system waves them past without getting too excited by them--or by any HIV genes that might be riding piggyback...