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Hard work, frugality and a sharp business sense-all part of the Scottish Presbyterian tradition-are the mark of an Ulsterman. In contrast with the Irish Republic, Ulster in some respects is relatively permissive. Playboy, X-rated films and strip shows are available, as are contraceptive devices. Divorce is legal. Dour religiosity, however, prevails in the Protestant areas of the North. Pubs and cinemas are closed Sundays, and even the children's swings in the parks are padlocked. The Ulsterman, it is said, treats his Sunday properly...
What has happened to Cosmopolitan since Women Liberationists let Mrs. Brown know that a cupcake must learn to bite back? What has happened to Playboy since Gloria Steinem told Hefner, "A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual...
...Service. Desperate if not deep signs of change are becoming visible. Now in its 19th year, Playboy is maintaining its posture of dauntless virility while trying to be less of a male chauvinist pig about it. Recently "The Playboy Adviser"-Hefner's answer to "Dear Abby"-piously rebuked a reader who asked if Playboy would help him persuade his wife to give up her career. "To deprive her of a chance to feel valuable to herself and society above and beyond the roles of wife and mother would be not only selfish but cruel," the "Adviser" preached...
...Playboy Forum," the magazine's letters column, also does conspicuous Lib lip service, especially on the issue of legalized abortion, though the guffaws of pregnancy jokes continue to echo from other pages. But other questions seem to trouble Playboy readers-and the editor who selects which letters to print-far more. How much does one tip a blackjack dealer? What is malmsey wine? How does a fellow get-and get rid of-the crabs? Why do Japanese girls think American men smell bad? (Answer: carnivorous Americans eat ten times as much meat as Japanese and their odors prove...
...curious datedness hangs over Playboy. The props never change-the stereo wailing, the fake gun collection framed in place on the wall, the satin sheets on the bed. One poor swinger who failed to keep up with his status symbols had to have the editor explain to him why there are so few convertibles on the market. Girls are still called chicks, and the cartoons are often 1930s vintage-elderly lechers chasing gamboling nymphs around the old yacht. Playboy fiction often features the best names-Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene-though not too often their best work. Playboy interviews, alertly conducted...