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...More than 10,000 stores across the country, including such mammoth chains as 7-Eleven and Rite Aid, have removed Playboy and Penthouse from their shelves, many of them acting after receiving a letter from the Meese commission suggesting that they might be cited for distributing pornography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Busters | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...satin suit was cut up to here and down to there, her white cottontail jiggled provocatively, and her accomplishments included the "bunny dip," which enabled her to serve drinks without bending too far over. Thus the Playboy bunny, for 26 years the just-out-of-reach embodiment of the Playboy philosophy in Hugh Hefner's Key Clubs. But alas, what was once risque is now passe, not to mention money losing. This week Hefner is closing the three remaining (out of a high of 17) Playboy-owned clubs, in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. Reunions in the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 7, 1986 | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

Shot last week, the commercial will net the President's son an undisclosed fee. It is only one of several high-profile plums on his plate, including a contributing editor's title at Playboy and a correspondent's contract with ABC's Good Morning, America. The Reagans are pleased with the First Son, but they may not be so happy about the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine, in which Ron cavorts in--you guessed it--hot red bikini briefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Family: Another Brief Appearance | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

...show biz. Words such as network, rock, video, new wave, hit parade, album all turn up in Swedish or, for that matter, Arabic. Show biz helps introduce the language of romance: sexy, playboy and, eventually, baby sitter. In Japan, the English names for sexual organs are considered more polite than the Japanese terms, and pink is now the Japanese word for all erotic entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: English: A Language That Has Ausgeflippt | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...looks and body--35-24-35--of a classic Playboy centerfold. Kathy Shower of Brookville, Ohio, is hardly your typical Playmate, though. For starters, she is 33 and the divorced mother of two. Shower had already done some TV parts before her May Playboy appearance. "I didn't have a name; you've got to get known," explains Shower of her decision to pose nude after a makeup-artist friend submitted some stills of her to the magazine. "I said to my friend that they wouldn't be interested once they learned my age," she recalls. But they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 12, 1986 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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