Word: pin-up
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...lacking in some of the other pieces. You may not agree with Schumacher's most profoundly-held life truth, "that the world is divided between people who have had analysis and people who haven't," but at least you are presented with a real character instead of a mere pin...
PLAYGIRL'S eroticism is generally found in the all-enticing Pin-up, in Playgirl's Discovery Man, in the photographic essay (February's entitled "Pillow Talk" featured a naked man and a half-dressed woman sporting on their spacious bed), in the personal horoscope (bordered by a male nude in various peek-a-boo poses) and in the advertising (breast stimulators and Frederick's of Hollywood "sex signals"). The fiction is also arousing if you are a Norah Lofts and Daphne DuMaurier...
PERHAPS the environment in Sleeper is altogether too comfortable for Allen. There are jokes that he doesn't have to strive for. Often the best lines come from the old Allen, unbound by the plot, as when, identifying relics of the 1970s for the doctors, he explains the Playboy pin-up models never existed, but were inflated like balloons...
...wound up singing in San Francisco coffeehouses. Although she had been singing in bars and college hangouts since her middle teens, music became the core of her existence after she joined a local rock group called Big Brother and the Holding Company. "I might be the first hippie pin-up girl," she wrote back home ecstatically. Enclosed was a poster of the new Janis, slimmer, draped in swinging beads and bracelets. With her 1967 performance at Monterey she gained instant fame, a contract with New York Rock Promoter Albert Grossman, and shortly after the friendship of Grossman...
...editors would like to thank Paul E. Donohue, Peter A. Southwick and Joseph A. Kovaks for their photographs, Peter W. Kaplan for the pin-up, and Ira A. Burnim for the cover. The Editors