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...seems only yesterday that Helen Gurley Brown told Cosmopolitan readers: "You've got to make yourself more cupcakeable all the time so that you're a better cupcake to be gobbled up." Meanwhile Hugh Hefner was giving Playboy readers lessons on how to lick off the frosting without actually paying for that cake. Like silent partners, Brown and Hefner-Miss Cupcake and Mr. Sweet Tooth-shared the profits of the sexual revolution* while remaining happily oblivious to the militant feminism that arrived in its wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cupcake v. Sweet Tooth | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...Playboy Press has trapped Miller within its safe Sanforized philosophy, bottled him up in a sterilized glass cage where he can't touch the week-end hedonists who could afford to buy the book. Now it's clear that Bradley Smith, producer of this monstrosity, has an official pipeline to Hugh Hefner. But the blurb on the jacket makes clear that Smith is conspiring to make Miller into a pioneer bunnyman...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Henry Miller's Swansong | 3/11/1972 | See Source »

...clear that the German-born Henry Kissinger [Feb. 7] is the one who is running both the domestic and international affairs of our nation. Here we find a playboy who enjoys and practices the full power of the presidency with no responsibility whatsoever to anyone. Any vote for Richard Nixon is a vote for that hedonist Kissinger to lead our nation to the ultimate bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1972 | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...would expect that a Macbeth produced by Playboy Enterprises, adapted by Kenneth Tynan, and directed by Roman Polanski would scale heights of the bizarre. And that, in fact, is what Playboy would like us to believe it does. Throughout the press campaign the unconventionality of the film has been trumpeted, the radicalism of its interpretation celebrated. It is billed as "the most original treatment of the drama since the reign of James...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: Polanski's Macbeth | 2/26/1972 | See Source »

Died. May Craig, 83, matriarch of the Irish theater; in Dublin. In 1907 Craig appeared in the first performance of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, at Dublin's Abbey Theater. By the standards of the time, the play was considered risque and derogatory to Irish society; the controversy escalated to street riots. Both Craig and the Abbey survived the dispute. She cultivated an American audience during six U.S. tours, and remained a trouper for more than 60 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1972 | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

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