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This year Timberland made another advance on the advertising front with a poll of "worldclass sailors" that claimed to show overwhelming preference for its shoe. Crowed the headline: 151 WORLD-CLASS SAILORS PROVE SPERRY TOPSIDER IS LOSING ITS GRIP. Meanwhile, Timberland is happily handing out reprints of a Playboy "Fashion Guide" interview in which Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., a transatlantic sailor who always tries to put his right foot forward, calls Timberland's product "the world's most comfortable shoe." To prove that Timberland's popularity cuts across political lines, the accompanying letter notes that...
...celebrated woman chaser who bragged to a Playboy interviewer that he photographs nude women. Yet he laments the decline of family values and deplores displays of anatomy and hints of extramarital sex in movies...
...blow to the one-night stand. The herpes counterrevolution may be ushering a reluctant, grudging chastity back into fashion. Eight years ago, Alex Comfort, the expansive apostle of coitus, could say of sex: "There is nothing to be afraid of, and never was." Now, in the Age of Herpes, Playboy employees jokingly refer to the swimming facilities at Hugh Hefner's Los Angeles mansion as "the herpes pool." A Manhattan resident who had always longed to disport himself at a sexual playpen called Plato's Retreat now says he will go only if he can wear a full-length...
...utterly unexpected. By the time this lift comes along, one feels numbed and battered by the movie's relentless vulgarity. Whorehouse began as a Playboy article by Larry L. King about the life and death of a not-too-bawdy house known as the Chicken Ranch. The process of mythologizing the basic material started with a Broadway musical. By now the misguided newsman whose crusade shut down the historical Chicken Ranch has evolved into an unbelievably flamboyant TV reporter...
...which offers an alternative to people who cannot face the world with a "tin grin." It was invented by Craven Kurz, 39, a Beverly Hills, Calif, orthodontist who once was a faculty member of UCLA Dental School. Some of Kurz's patients, among them actors, announcers and even Playboy Bunnies, had a professional investment in their smiles. "They were in a Catch-22 situation," explains Kurz. "They needed to have their teeth straightened, but they couldn't use conventional braces-it would be disastrous for their jobs...