Word: playboyism
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...prayer circle on Monday," Michael Carneal had told Strong on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Carneal was a bit of a misfit at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., one who occasionally wore ill-fitting, loud-colored clothes and had a couple of disciplinary problems (browsing the Playboy Website, digging a sharp object into a wall). But Carneal could also discuss the Shakespeare play assigned to class (Romeo and Juliet) with allusions to other works by the Bard. Strong was a senior and Carneal a freshman, and, says Strong, "We're in distinctly different social classes," with Carneal...
Flannery said she has not heard of any incidents of improper Web use in her contacts with Cambridge school administrators. But Roberts did recall an episode that occurred last year involving several classmates of her son at the Haggerty School. According to Roberts, the boys "somehow wandered into the Playboy site" while using a computer with Web access at school...
Bursting Branson's Balloon The British billionaire and Virgin-owning playboy is at it again, trying to fly round the world in a balloon. The balloon itself, evidently, had different ideas...
...with that caveat in mind that a viewer will have to approach Bent, a reworking of the 1979 Martin Sherman play which treats the persecution and internment of gay men in Nazi Germany. Handsome and likable but startlingly self-centered, playboy Max (Clive Owen) regularly hurts the feelings of his young lover Rudy (Brian Webber) by sleeping around with other men. But one night Max picks up the wrong soldier at a club, and the next morning the Gestapo appears at their door. On the run from the S.S. for two years, Max and Rudy are finally captured...
...expected to hear far more about protecting children at a panel discussion called "Sex, Commercialism and the Disappearance of Childhood." Or at the very least, I expected to hear about whether children really needed protection. A study of "Images of Children, Crime and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler" by Judith A. Reisman, in contrast to the ARCO panel, sets out the relevant facts. Funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the study of the three magazines from December 1953 to December 1984, located 6,004 images of children. Overall, "child-depiction increased nearly 2,600 percent...