Word: playboyism
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...other hand, the Japanese are bombarded with the same negative images of the U.S. that have deepened America's mood of depression and self-doubt. People watch CNN reporting on the American homeless. They flock to see the gratuitous violence of Die Hard 2. Japanese Playboy, which for years projected an image of the U.S. as a carefree sexual playground, now runs stories about the AIDS epidemic. Japanese newspapers, cribbing from the U.S. press, detail the decline in American educational standards and the growth in the murder rate...
...discount before she bought her first sofa. Despite her confident demeanor, she felt so plain she wondered who that attractive, articulate woman impersonating her on television was. Thin as a pinstripe, she nonetheless felt one Sara Lee cheesecake away from Weight Watchers. Once a lively writer who impersonated a Playboy Bunny to expose Hugh Hefner's cheesy idea of sex appeal and quipped that if men could menstruate they would brag about how long and how much, she had produced very little since her collection of essays, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, in 1983. Ms., the magazine she co-founded...
Paglia is the new media princess, and acts the part. When she accepts a speaking engagement now, she generally shows up with two massive bodyguards togged out in black leather jackets. She has been featured in the New Republic, Playboy, New York, NYQ (for New York Queer), Russian, Japanese and French publications...
...Jacksons, who proved you can never be too rich, too thin, too bleached, too naked, too . . . too Jackson to keep the gossips mum. Just sign a multimedia deal that could bring you a billion (Michael) or a record contract worth $32 million (Janet). Or pose nude in Playboy (La Toya). Or chastise your bro as "reconstructed, been abducted" in a rap song (Jermaine to Michael). Or put crotch shots and a car trashing in your music video (Michael). The worst of it is that on the side, a couple of them (Michael, Janet) make good music...
Turner did not confine his pugnaciousness to his home. As a skipper, he occasionally struck crew members who made mistakes. He abruptly ended his Playboy interview with Peter Ross Range in 1983 by smashing Range's tape recorder. At the office his bursts of violence were verbal, but almost all his top executives say they have felt them. After one tirade, says Gerald Hogan, the former president of TBS Entertainment Networks, "he had me, not in tears, crying, but at that point my eyes had welled up, I was so angry...