Word: playboyism
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IGNORING the Milanese playboy, Micol lavishes her attentions on Giorgio. As they stroll together through the garden, they people the woods and fields with remembrances of things past; glimpses of the two as children show Giorgio even then a shy admirer of the "private pupil" Micol, while she plays the seductress in their game of communication through glances. A sudden downpour dispells the sunshine of their memories, and taking refuge in an old carriage, their mode of contact threatens to become physical. But Giorgio is too slow in making this transition from childhood innocence. Paralyzed by the enticing new light...
...cost of living bugs every Floridian from Beverly Russell, the Bunny Mother at Miami Beach's Playboy Plaza, who had her rent hiked, to Maggie Murray, a ghetto grandmother in Orlando, who struggles to meet her $26-a-month electricity bill. At the same time, cattle farmers in central Florida worry about the price of beef. Drugs, too, are of great concern in Florida. "The root of most of our crime is drugs," insists an official of the Tampa Chamber of Commerce...
...what?" and hardly ever gets the girl. Niven has played this P.O. Wodehouse stereotype with such consistent charm that audiences usually assume that Niven is like that too. Not at all. In The Moon's a Balloon, his racy autobiography, Niven offers himself as a tough, ambitious international playboy-a well-preserved specimen of that almost extinct species, the gilded barfly...
...alive, exciting, and in tune with whatever is in." There is, for example, the Rev. Leroy of the Church of What's Happening Now. The Rev, as Flip calls him, is a hot-gospeling preacher whose collection cup runneth over-into his pockets. There is Freddy the Playboy, the swinger with a quick eye for an ebony leg and an even quicker line of honeyed jive. There is Sonny, the White House janitor, Henry Kissinger's Doppelganger and the only sane voice in the Washington Establishment...
...this point, Schrag proceeds to potshot all the easy targets in sight. Disneyland and Playboy, Pat Nixon and Doris Day, Billy Graham and flavorless bread-blaming them all on the WASP...