Word: playboyism
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...mixture/ Walkin' talkin' Texas texture/ High timin' barroom fixture/ Kind or a girl") and "Texas--1947". This is the first album for Clark, a first-rate songwriter who wrote a lot of Jerry Jeff Walker's material. His voice is a raunchy beer-soaked, high whine, gritty and vital. Playboy calls his songs "Larry McMurtry set to music", but it would be more accurate to call McMurtry a literary version of Guy Clark. If Clark doesn't become a superstar, it won't be form lack of talent...
...Vice President's first work of fiction, leads one to believe that Agnew's career as a writer will be about as successful as his career as a politician. There is no question that the book would have remained unpublished if anyone else had written it. The editors at Playboy Press (if there are editors at Playboy Press, and not just photo-retouchers) appear to have adopted a laissez-faire attitude toward the manuscript, which at 344 tedious pages is too long by half. They probably assumed that the book would sell as a novelty, like a celebrity cook book...
...room; here it's too noisy. And the stacks are dismal, like being swallowed by a Leviathan. Except they're entertaining too. Like every now and then you run across ancient books made out of sheepskin, or with pages bolted together with metal things, or even the Playboy collection down on some sub-level...
...bunny jet has been sold. The Chicago mansion is virtually closed. Competitors nip at Playboy's heels, and profits from Playboy Enterprises, Inc. are way down from their peak of $11 million in 1973. Last week Hugh Hefner, plainly weary of the administrative wars, confirmed reports that he planned to relinquish the presidency of his company soon. But, insisted Hef, who will stay on as chairman and chief executive, "I'm satisfied with what I've accomplished; my place in history seems pretty well assured." He added: "I don't feel the need to prove myself...
...CONDUCT OF LIFE" shelf is where the Library of Congress is putting this book, right there next to Aristotle and Emerson, and at first this seems to be somebody's ghastly, naive mistake. L. Rust Hills is a writer of witty essays in Playboy and Esquire magazines on the foibles and disorders of modern life. His publishers try to give the impression on the dust jacket that Hills is having a bit of a joke here with his talk of "Moral Virtue," the kind of joke you tell with plenty of broad winks and an occasional leer. It's just...