Word: playboyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pakistan raised diplomatic eyebrows by putting its money on horsy Playboy Aly Khan as its permanent delegate to the United Nations. Aly's appointment struck some as a consolation prize for his failure to succeed his father as the top (Aga) Khan. A citizen of Iran, he promised to take an "active interest...
...read psychology books, plastered her face with cold cream, put her hair in "irons" and her head in a beauty-lift "hammock." For a long, gentle interlude, the gentleman turned to his sexy-voiced dress designer, Patricia Neal, who was having her own problems with Robert Alda, a rapacious playboy known as "the Jewish Errol Flynn." Over Pat's stingers, Walter grunted and groaned about the young generation, whose books are all titled Kiss Me Deadly, Kill Me Lovely or Love Me Dreadful, or lamented mating in the movies when the lovers "come together finally for a kiss...
Four-year-old Playboy magazine, which has built 788,350 circulation on the proposition that, next to themselves, boys like girls best, discovered last week that even this sturdy philosophy can lead to trouble. After running a color photo of a nude teenager, Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner was hustled into Chicago's domestic relations court on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Said police: brunette Elizabeth Ann Roberts, Hefner's pert Miss Playmate for January, was not a fetching college freshman of 18, as reported in Playboy, but a fetching high-school senior...
...magazines plummets about 25 per cent according to Diamadopoulos. "The New Yorker, Reporter, the most sophisticated ones, drop down considerably," he said, and added that the circulation of the Sunday New York Times fell by 35 per cent this week. There was little change in the sale of Playboy...
...Marees. It is actually frustrating that a painter such as Lovis Corinth who produces as charming a watercolor as Girl on Bed Reading will do a canvas such as Salome, which despite much good painting, includes a temptress as slick and glossy as a fugitive from the pages of Playboy. Yet it is precisely this literary concern with emotional interpretation which characterizes the history of twentieth century expressionism...