Word: playboyism
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Examples of a close association between sports and city abound--Broadway Joe Namath uses his big-city playboy image to this day; Mickey Mantle, the Oklahoma kid who made it big on America's biggest stage came straight out of a Horatio Alger novel; Hideki Irabu's introduction to New York was Derek Jeter giving him a tour of the Chinatown club scene; and let us not forget the New York Knicks, the lovable bullies of the NBA--the civic myth of New York lives a charmed life within its sports scene...
...course, this is not to say that horrible kings have not existed this century. For instance, no one would have wanted Bao Dai as emperor of Vietnam in the 1950s. Instead of helping to patch the volatile Vietnamese political system, he was content to lead the life of a playboy and womanizer. He indirectly aided Vietnam's conversion to communism, since those wishing to have a democratic, independent Vietnam had no one to turn to as a leader...
...breasts are fake and she dropped out of college after a petty theft. And, scariest of all, that she had crushes on Mr. Rogers and Erik Estrada in her youth. For many, this will be more information than they ever wanted to know about anyone, let alone a former Playboy Playmate of the Year and star of three cheesy TV shows. Others will glory in the fact that she hates that other blond bimbo and Playboy alum Pamela Lee, because of some catty remarks Lee made in Cannes while promoting Barb Wire. Isn't it amazing how much one woman...
...life as the father of four children suffered as he pursued football. In 1989 his only daughter, 20-year-old Kristyn, became the out-of-wedlock mother to the child of Colorado football star Sal Aunese, a notorious campus playboy. (In 1993 she gave birth to a son fathered by another of McCartney's varsity players.) Meanwhile, his wife Lyndi drifted into depression as her children grew up and moved out and her husband remained on the road...
...cultivate a slavish dependence on their neatly parceled timetables-whether Vinyl metal spirals from the bargain bin at CVS or leather-bound volumes printed in acid-free ink and stored in the glass cases at Bob Slate's. Worshipped like prayer books and handled like the latest edition of Playboy to hit the men's locker room, complex planners are as common among students as red books in Mao's China...