Word: playboyism
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...enterprise that does legalized breaking and entering designed to test corporate security systems. His associates include a defrocked cia operative (Sidney Poitier); a gentle paranoid (Dan Aykroyd) who believes the same group that killed Jack Kennedy also framed Pete Rose; a blind computer whiz (David Strathairn) whose keyboard -- and Playboy -- are in Braille; and a kid (River Phoenix) who demonstrated his personal best when he illegally improved his grades in a raid on his school's mainframe...
...AIDS has deflected energies that might more happily have gone into the legislative battle for civil rights, the disease may actually have spurred that long and bumpy struggle. Gary Kaupman of Atlanta, former editor of Southern Voice, the city's gay and lesbian weekly, argues, "AIDS has broken the playboy stereotype and exposed our humanity to the rest of the world, and that has allowed us to touch it better ourselves. We have been seen as more serious people, and we have become more serious people. I don't think we would have anywhere near the political allies...
...PLAYBOY, IDLER, A SNOB'S SNOB, Cole Porter lived the dream life of the '30s, remote from the privations of the Depression. But as he and his rich friends cruised the beauty spots of the world, he was listening to the rhythms of their speech and of the bands they danced to, transforming their fads and crazes into often mordant social comment. And into 500 or so of the best American songs ever written -- ballads, laments, sophisticated melodies, impudent scatter, chatter, smatter songs. The miracle of this four-CD set is that it makes a rich sampling of those songs...
When they married, they seemed a match made in tabloid heaven: Andrew, the handsome playboy prince, and Sarah Ferguson, the red-headed minx who enjoyed slap and tickle and a good time. In contrast to the icy blondness of her sister-in-law Diana, the fun lover all of Britain came to know as Fergie was made up of earth colors and earthy views, promising a shot of red blood into thin royal veins. "She is the best thing in my life," Andrew often told friends, while his bride openly gushed, "I love his wit, his charm, his looks...
Crazy for You has several moments when characters might wrench out their feelings. But in the leading roles of a playboy who just wants to sing and dance, and a small-town gal who just wants to honor her dad, Harry Groener is all tinny energy and Jodi Benson is all hollow spunk, so even the big ballads don't pay off. He dances and sings just well enough to remind one of the greats without rivaling them. She is so amplified vocally that she sounds as though she were in a recording studio. The real blame belongs with...