Word: playboyism
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Major d'Aubuisson is young, handsome, aggressive, with the aura of a playboy, indefatigable, and his speeches are interspersed with jokes and vulgarities. He does not know uncertainty. His ideas are utterly simplistic: it was President Carter who surrendered Nicaragua to the Sandinistas. Carter also prepared to turn over El Salvador to Communism, but "we stopped the conspiracy in its tracks." At the time, the major was an intelligence officer, and he claims he quit so he could "denounce the Communist plot." According to his adversaries, when he left the army he took with him the intelligence archives. Many...
...Rossi gives one of the film's best performances as Shirley's mechanic husband, who willingly supports her career until his own personal failures create an almost unbearable tension between them. Shirley's lover, the compulsive playboy played by Bridges, is for some obscure reason attractive to Shirley, who along with his wife puts up with his compulsive womanizing...
...playboy veneer concealed keen political vision. Jesuit-educated, Trudeau frequently quoted "reason over passion" as a maxim and often applied it in reconciling the longstanding divisions between Canada's anglophone majority and the French-descended minority concentrated in his home province of Quebec. In one of his finest hours, Trudeau argued successfully for passage of the Official Languages Act of 1969, which effectively established bilingualism as national policy...
...first college conference featured when Playboy introduced its annual college theme September features...
...Playboy does not set specific requirements as to who may pose for the pictorial, but according to Cohen, "women interested must have a well proportioned body, pretty hair, and a good complexion." He added that Playboy wants its models to "be active on campus, taking more than one or two classes...