Word: playboyism
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...former P.O.W.s, along with their wives and friends and one Playboy Playmate, the occasion was one of joy that not even a downpour could diminish. Most of them squished happily through the bog that had once been the White House lawn. One veteran of a Viet Nam prison remarked, "It's not the first time I've sat in the mud to eat, but at least this time I have a chair...
...tired, stale and plastic almost from the beginning. One of the candidates did not even put in an appearance. When Thompson was refused a White House press pass ("Rolling what?" said the officials), he wrote that "getting barred from the White House is like being blackballed at the Playboy Club;" following Nixon at all "is like being sentenced to six months in a Holiday Inn;" and "the difference between traveling with McGovern and traveling with Nixon is just like the difference between going on tour with the Grateful Dead and going on tour with the Pope." Curtains are certainly coming...
...Indian court art, whether Muslim or Hindu, was permeated by a meticulously apportioned lavishness. Adjectives tend to buckle under its splendors. One chubby royal playboy, Jagat Singh II of Mewar, spent ?250,000 - at a time when a field peasant might hope to earn seven shillings a year - building and embellishing pavilions on the islands of his private lake, be fore he died at the tender age of 18 in 1752. Because miniature painting was the court art par excellence, a distillate of countless man-hours for people with infinite leisure, it provides a spyhole to the detail of this...
Brazil's prim, puritanical military government, which last January banned certain erotic drawings by Pablo Picasso as obscene, has moved ahead with its campaign to keep the country pure and clean. In a tough new press-censorship decree, it banned 60 foreign and domestic magazines-including Playboy, Penthouse, Lui and, curiously, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel-because they offended "morality and proper behavior" by exploiting erotic themes. The decree also provided that all magazines circulating in Brazil must henceforth submit copies to police censors to determine whether they conform to government standards. If the journals are not approved...
...Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, 72, creator of Dagwood and Blondie, the cartoon couple whose exploits are still followed by some 75 million newspaper readers around the world; of a lung embolism; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Young's original 1930 comic strip portrayed Dagwood Bumstead as the well-heeled playboy son of an industrialist and Blondie Boopadoop as a money-hungry, man-chasing flapper. The characters had little appeal for Depression audiences, so Young married the two in 1933, eventually gave them a son and daughter and all the trappings of middle-class life. Dagwood evolved into the harried family...