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...reflected in what people wear on the streets. But if you know what you're looking for, you'll gradually start to spot it: a window of lace-up basques here, a display of fishnets there, and over there - an eyeful of bras and boas that would put the Playboy Mansion to shame. A lot of local men have a taste for such things because they're "like children," posits the manager of the upper-end Charme lingerie store. "They get bored easily so a girl must have many outfits." In fact, she needs up to 30 lingerie sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Undercover In Damascus | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

Most recently, Nelson oversaw the Republican National Committee's independent expenditure operation, which produced the most notorious ad of the 2006 campaign. In it, a bare-shouldered white actress claimed that she had met the black Senate candidate Harold Ford at a Playboy party. The ad ended with the blond cooing, "Harold, call me." The resulting protest by black leaders and union groups was enough to force Wal-Mart to sever its ties with Nelson, who had been a consultant for the company's campaign to improve its image. Ford lost the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Being a Frontrunner | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...lethargically paced drama ensues when Ellie discovers that the stranger with whom she has fallen in love is Hesione’s playboy husband Hector (Harry M. Adamson). It continues with a stream of visitors who continually add to the angles of a complex love triangle. But the true excitement lies not simply in Shaw’s plot, reminding one of “The OC,” but also in the idiosyncratic characters that the actors so vividly bring to life...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sagging ‘House’ Ends On High Ground | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...James explains, unless the reasons are life-threatening.“I had already started spending like I had been accepted, so that was kind of rough,” he says. But it was not an entirely wasted effort. “You know the Playboy issues you would be kind of excited about but never pay the six dollars for? They always had those issues.”Neither James nor Steve had serious qualms about donating their goods for others to populate the earth. While James was slightly worried that “my familial kids might...

Author: By John F. Pararas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: All in a Day’s Work | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...Zackheim, who is paired with a “Playboy cybergirl” from Florida, said he decided to audition upon the urging of a friend...

Author: By Natalia I. Irizarry-cole, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Harvard 'Geeks' Woo Beauties | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

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