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...brand of school spirit far removed from pep rallies and cheerleading has spread throughout American campuses college pinup calendars. Typically featuring photographs of the school's best-looking undergraduate men or women, the calendars have appeared at colleges from Connecticut to California and are marketed nationwide...
...Pinup Calendars featuring college students as models are the rage these days, and it was only a matter of time until the fad hit the Ivy League...
...have come up with a calendar they call "The Daughters of Yale" with a different Eli belle for each month of the year. But unlike its more serious counterparts at other colleges, this calendar is actually a parody, zeroing in on stereotypes of Ivy students and poking fun at pinup calendars in general...
...much display their bodies as move comfortably in them, telegraphing their belief that they were a match for any man. In the '40s and '50s, the bazooka buxomness of Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield marked a reaction against equality; here was the milkmaid as sultry pinup. Now the hourglass is shattered. Says George Hurrell, the portrait photographer who for 60 years has celebrated Hollywood's full-figured stars: "In the '30s everything was round. It gave a body shape and shadow. Today, actresses are rid of hips and thighs and even busts...
...They're users. They're cruel, and they're certainly no better than I am," Paula Parkinson, 30, told the Washington Post. The 5-ft. 2-in., 100-lb. former Playboy pinup and Capitol Hill lobbyist denied rumors that she had video-taped 17 trysts, or that she kept a list of D.C. luminaries with whom she had sported. Well, one video tape and a short list of names, perhaps, none of which she would dream of using to blackmail nervous Congressmen, who have been busy pointing fingers in other directions while waiting for Parkinson...