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Whether they like it or not, the issue does differ from openly pornographic publications. Teenagers who can't buy Playboy can buy Sports Illustrated. Gstrings in a magazine where one expects jockstraps is different from nude women in magazines where one expects to see nude women...
...extremes and actually evoked the future accurately; the piece might have been designed last week. Loewy's pencil sharpener (1934) is delightfully and uselessly aerodynamic, its barrel jutting forward at the angle of a poster- perfect Soviet worker marching into the future. Then there was Buck Rogers as penthouse playboy: Walter Dorwin Teague's lingerie-sexy blue glass radio (1936) and Ely Jacques Kahn's spherical aluminum ice bucket (1940), shiny and synthetically...
...Semiotics of Semiotics," Wlad Godzich professes the self-conscious hope "to have been doing semiotics and not merely to have been writing about it." It is Barthes, however, who executes the language of language with consummate grace. Whether he is posing with candid self exposure in a Playboy interview ("I had a super skinny morphology throughout my youth") or indulging in speculation about the culinary orgasms of Brillat-Savarin ("BS desires the word as he desires truffles") or performing with routine ease a classic clinical dissection of text ("A Textual Analysis of a Tale of Poe"), it is with...
...perish in this vehicle, children, or we can move on up the road." The collection concludes with one of its weaker essays, "Here Be Dragons," but the piece is still a fitting (and certainly chronological) ending: an essay about the validity of homosexuality which was published in between two Playboy spreads. Baldwin is well-known for cropping up in ironic places to send his message of tolerance all the more powerfully...
...Sales will be up," says Bob Cermak, eastern division manager of Playboy. He even predicts November's edition will be bigger than the Madonna issue that was released this past summer...