Word: playboyism
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...Ford's crime was his attendance, along with 3,000 other people, at a Super Bowl party sponsored by Playboy magazine last year. This inspired the Republicans to run their now famous ad featuring a scantily clad white actress who claimed to have met Ford at the party and then, in the punch line, pooched her lips, winked and whispered, "Harold, call me." A second ad accused Ford of having "Hollywood values," for what it said was his support of gay marriage and the distribution of morning-after birth-control pills to teenagers...
...Hefner: Well, it is the return of the bunnies. It is the first club/casino since the early 1980s, and it comes at a time in which the Playboy brand is very hot again. I think the clubs were popular against all odds for a quarter of a century, and the whole nightclub phenomenon ran its course. When the 1980s turned conservative politically and sexually with Reagan in the White House and the arrival of AIDS, I think there was a backlash to the social-sexual change that took place in the latter part...
...TIME: You recently told the Australian press how much you wanted Nicole Kidman to be in Playboy...
...TIME: What has surprised you most about the way Playboy has evolved over the past 50 years...
...have imagined it, but in the last half-dozen years, the brand has become on a global level hugely popular with women as well as men. I think what you're getting now is an entire generation of young women in a post-feminist era in which the Playboy brand back in the 1970s was perceived in some quarters as chauvinist, is now viewed as a form of empowerment for young women, which was unthinkable for me 20 years ago. Needless to say I think that is wonderful because I always from the very beginning felt that the sexual revolution...