Word: playboy
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...TITLE: PLAYBOY OF THE WEST INDIES...
...most popular play, which is enjoying a sterling production off- Broadway, Matura uses as his model Synge's finest work, The Playboy of the Western World. The 1921 original was set in County Mayo, in Ireland's remote rural west. The rowdy, bloody adaptation is set in Trinidad's east coast village of Mayaro in 1950. The transposition feels natural, underscoring Matura's point that at some deep level all colonial experiences are similar. The language is strikingly different, less liltingly poetic than the Irish, but bolder and much bawdier. By setting the tale a few decades later, Matura...
...people who are going to read this magazine are the same [teenagers] who play around with their cable TV box trying to tune in static on the Playboy channel," said Adam D. Taxin...
...fighting for abortion rights in 1965 when Gloria Steinem was a Playboy bunny," he said...
Line dancing is spreading to areas not traditionally considered country- western strongholds. In the boutiquey historic district of Charleston, South Carolina, Southerners are lining up to scoot their boots at the Blue Coyote. This week Denim & Diamonds will open a 16,000-sq.-ft. venue at a former Playboy Club site in midtown Manhattan. "It's not just a fad," maintains Dave Cervini of New York City's C. and W. station WYNY, who has helped promote line-dancing events on New York's Long Island. "You never see drugs, weapons, fights. It's definitely a change...