Word: playboyism
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...dead from an apparent fall, she's sure that the wrong kind of invisible hand is at work. She investigates the victim's death with two weapons: an analytical mind and an unabashed use of her feminine wiles. Flattering and flirting, she makes her way through the suspects: the playboy university president who promoted Fisher from the secretarial ranks, allegedly thanks to her talents between the sheets; a slimy comptroller with a repertoire of bilingual--but still awful--come-ons (as in, "You're looking recherche this evening"); and a black bookseller stuck in a '60s time warp...
...Rotary Club in the 1920s.) Yan got a Rotary scholarship and was the first high school student in China allowed to go abroad. Wearing his school uniform, he took a train to the Hong Kong border. A family friend met him, bought him clothes, a watch and a Playboy-brand belt. Seven days later, he arrived in Auckland, New Zealand. "My hosts met me at the airport," he recalls. "I really didn't have enough English. I meant to say, 'How are you?' Instead I said, 'How old are you?' And I have a very loud voice." From there...
...small crisis has arisen within the walls of the Harvard Club of New York: some of the club's members have objected to the barbershop's subscription to Playboy magazine...
...course, these educated men of Harvard are only interested in Playboy for the stimulating and exciting articles so there should be no cause for alarm, that, for example, women are unwelcome there; nonetheless, we understand why some members would take offense at having the some-what lurid publication in the barbershop. After all, as it says on the magazine itself, it is "Entertainment...
...guiding principle behind the integration of Harvard classrooms and Harvard dormitories over more than 25 years ago applies to the Playboy case as well: women are entitled to the same benefits and opportunities to which men are entitled...