Word: playboyism
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...them with golf courses designed by Robert Trent Jones. When Hassan dies, he expects to be ensconced in the mausoleum he has had built for himself in Rabat, a $7.5 million structure that looks like a cross between a pagoda and the Taj Mahal. Not bad for a onetime playboy prince who cut a sybaritic swath through Paris in the 1950s, lavishly displaying his enthusiasm for women, fast cars and Western clothes...
With his competitors multiplying like rabbits, Playboy Emperor Hugh Hefner, 49, has recruited help for his troubled hutch. Starting Nov. 1, his new "special assistant" will be Christie Hefner, 22, Hefs own willowy brunette daughter. "I'll be listening and learning about the entire corporation and placing problems in front of my father that need his attention," says Christie, who has been following her father's "Playboy Philosophy" since she was 18 and began rooming with a college boy friend. Alas, she will apparently disappoint feminist critics of the bare-skin magazine. "My presence speaks for itself...
...much that Lichtenstein is so bad that he resembles commercial art, but that commercial art is good because it has learned the practical lessons of Mondrian, Picasso and modern art. Because of their plentifulness and familiarity we take for granted and deprecate the superb graphics of magazines like Playboy, Esquire, and National Lampoon. But how many boring dull articles have we been snared into by eye-catching graphics? And in a hundred years, how many architecture students will be studying the prefabricated simplicity and functionality of a Jack...
These are as two-dimensional stereotypes of men and women as are to be found in any issue of Viva or Playboy. Lecherous bosses are among the lesser threats to a woman's sense of herself, and there are far greater supports for it than dishwashing husbands...
...been going too well for Playboy. Advertising revenue is down 7½%, and newsstand sales are down nearly 17%. For the first time, Playboy's circulation (5.8 million, v. 3.7 million for Penthouse) has fallen short of its 6 million-copy guarantee; the magazine last month began offering partial refunds to advertisers. Playboy, however, still makes money, while Hefner's nonpublishing sidelines mostly do not. Playboy Enterprises, Inc., the parent firm, last week announced its third consecutive losing quarter. Playboy is considered by its competitors as still relatively mild. "Bondage is where the action is right...