Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GETTYSBURG, PA., Summer Theater: The Playboy of the Western World is a timid young Irishman whose moments of rebellion earn him first adulation and then scorn. John Synge's 40-year-old comedy remains an ironic and telling tale...
Thoroughly routed at home, he left for Moscow in 1920 to turn his attention to the theater, painting murals for Moscow's Kamerny State Jewish Theater and designing sets and costumes for adaptations of Sholom Aleichem's satirical tales. But his sets for Synge's Playboy of the Western World, commingling geometry, Hebrew characters and dislocated figures in iconographic puzzles, were rejected as not naturalistic enough by the Moscow Art Theater. And so, having rejected all the isms of Paris, Chagall found himself rejected by Communism. In 1922, Chagall left Russia with $20, clad in khaki trousers...
...many foreign operators who have moved in to exploit Switzerland's free-and-easy financial codes, Munoz specialized in buying into Swiss banks and bringing to them huge sums of capital fleeing from Latin America and Spain. In 1962 he landed quite a client: Ramfis Trujillo, playboy son of the assassinated Dominican despot. Though at least one big Swiss bank had found Trujillo's millions too hot to handle, Munoz channeled the funds into two banks that he controlled, the Swiss Savings & Credit Bank of St. Gallen and the Geneva Commerce & Credit Bank. To invest the Trujillo hoard...
...past 3½ years, no fewer than 20 actresses with established reputations have appeared in various stages of undrape in various men's magazines, most notably Playboy. Among them: Carroll Baker, Jane Fonda, Carol Lynley, Elsa Martinelli, Shirley MacLaine, Kim Novak, Hike Sommer, Susan Strasberg, Liz Taylor and Susannah York. Some were in coy poses, some in semi-erotic, some had a phony "naughty-naughty" look in their eyes. The current Playboy shucks all that in favor of an actress whose view of nudity is that if it's classic, it's beautiful, even in Kodachrome...
...Never Saw Any." Throughout the Deep South, hundreds of segregationists rushed to send for copies of the Congressional Record and all the prurient details. Chortled Dickinson: "One of my colleagues just came back from a newsstand, and he said, 'Man, they've got three bestsellers-Nugget, Playboy and the Congressional Record!' " Dickinson hardly seemed to care that many people, North and South, viewed such stories with great suspicion. Although congressional speeches are privileged, he said that he would repeat last week's charges in the Montgomery Coliseum, which would automatically lift his protection against a slander...