Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That was before Exon showed up in the Senate with his "blue book." Exon had asked a friend to download some of the rawer images available online. "I knew it was bad," he says. "But then when I got on there, it made Playboy and Hustler look like Sunday-school stuff." He had the images printed out, stuffed them in a blue folder and invited his colleagues to stop by his desk on the Senate floor to view them. At the end of the debate--which was carried live on C-SPAN--few Senators wanted to cast a nationally televised...
...when he was only 35, Vesco set his eyes on Investors Overseas Services, a floundering mutual fund run by playboy-salesman Bernard Cornfeld. Touting his expertise in setting up ICC (by then a conglomerate of several companies) Vesco came in with a $5 million bail-out and was hailed as IOS's savior. Very quickly, however, IOS funds were mysteriously misdirected. By the time the sec was ready to indict Vesco, the financier was gone, having taken his loot and his family, his yacht and his planes, to Costa Rica...
...response to Playboy magazine's recent visit to interview women for their upcoming issue featuring women of the Ivy League, the Lyman Common Room asserts the following...
...Playboy magazine not only stifles a woman's self-expression, but it constructs women as two-dimensional "playthings" for men. Viewing women only as sexualized objects ignores their humanity, which makes it easier to condone violence against them...
...conjunction with women from Yale, Cornell, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth and Princeton, the Lyman Common Room at Radcliffe is helping to assemble an alternative magazine to the Playboy issue entitled Women of the Ivy League, to be released next fall. The alternative magazine offers a way for women of the Ivy League to be recognized for their talent, intelligence, creativity, sexuality and tru beauty. It combats media images which use women as marketing devices by encouraging women's bodies to voice their desires and aspirations. Women deserve their own voice. Through this magazine, women can portray themselves as they want...