Word: playboyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...since the Kinsey reports has there been such a large-scale study of American sexual mores as Sexual Behavior in the 1970s by Morton Hunt (395 pages; Playboy Press; $10.95), based on a poll funded by the Playboy Foundation (TIME, Oct. 1). But given the long-heralded sexual revolution in the U.S., Hunt's conclusions should not surprise anyone. Among them: married couples are having sex more frequently and are doing so "more imaginatively, voluptuously and playfully than their counterparts of a generation...
...Kennecott and Phelps Dodge jacked up copper prices by 18%, to 800 per Ib. Chrysler added an average of almost 3% to the price of all its cars and trucks, and Westinghouse raised the price of its light bulbs by 10%. Hedonists will be hurt: the newsstand price of Playboy will go up 25%, to $ 1.25 a copy. The annual "membership fee" charged to holders of American Express credit cards will rise 33%, to $20. On the blue-collar front, 12,000 West Coast members of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union saluted...
...main reason why, despite the endorsement of the Gaullist Party, he trailed Giscard last week. Throughout his 29-year political career, Chaban has striven to appear youthful, athletic and energetic-and succeeded all too well. Many Frenchmen regard Chaban, who was a national tennis finalist in 1965, as a "playboy," not sérieux enough to be President. Married three times, in a Catholic country where divorce is still a political handicap, he has become saddled with the nicknames "Beau Jacques"and "Charmant Delmas." Moreover, he still has a slight scent of scandal about him. He was dismissed by Pompidou...
...Read books, read books!" · The Watergate sleuths of the Washington Post, Carl Bernstein, 30, and Bob Woodward, 30, received a $55,000 advance from Simon & Schuster in early 1973 for their account of the scandal. After the sale of movie rights to Robert Redford for $450,000 and Playboy's $25,000 check for two excerpts, the pair expected to gross around $500,000 each from the finished book, All the President's Men, to be published this June. Then came a pleasant surprise: Warner Paperback library offered $1 million for the paperback rights-a record...
...visaged, facing forward and alone. Few of his once close associates have seen much of him lately, though Agnew continues to play an occasional golf or tennis match at two suburban Washington clubs. Friends say he is devoting much of his time to the novel he is writing for Playboy Press. There was no fanfare, no farewell, when Agnew surrendered his last Government link. Four secretaries worked the last day, and at closing time they simply locked up and left...