Word: playboyism
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...responds to The American Dreamer will be inspired by how one responds to Hopper. He bullshits continually about his mysticism and individuality and innate contrariness. But when dealing with other people, whether a terribly sympathetic press agent, a flushed would-be starlet. or a struggling-to-impress Playboy bunny, he can be unassumingly ingratiating-particularly when his irony is right, and subtly so. "I'm sorry, but I'm just in town for the day . . . since I'm an actress I thought I should meet you." says the starlet. "Well," replies Hopper. fanning the breeze with his arms. his face...
...Martyr. Like many of Shakespeare's plays, Richard II is a journey of inner transformation. As Prince Hal moves from tavern playboy to patriot King, so Richard moves from self-indulgent fop to martyr. Chamberlain accomplishes this with masterly gradations. His early Richard walks with a kind of saucy flippancy. When he banishes Bolingbroke and Mowbray from the realm, it is not so much with imperial ire as petulant impatience. He has already gained in gravity when he later drops to the ground and fondles the soil of England: "Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hands, Though...
...pleasure. Physicist John Taylor, in fact, professes to fear that sex will become so much fun that people will want to give up practically all nonsexual activities. Author Gordon Rattray Taylor predicts that it may become possible to "buy desire," or switch it on or off at will; the playboy might opt for continuous excitement and the astronaut for freedom from sexual urges during space flight...
Other Climaxes. The Bruins are almost as colorful off the ice as on. Sanderson, with a Playboy-style pad and an unbuttoned lip, plays the role of a freaked-out Joe Namath. "Scoring goals," he likes to say, "isn't the only climax in my life." Esposito festoons his locker with trinkets to ward off "evil spirits." Orr has become a prospective millionaire. He is co-proprietor of a successful hockey camp and is just launching a hockey equipment company with projected first-year sales...
...what did you see? A violinist, a Merit Scholar or two, a Shakespeare expert? A poet, a biochemist, an aristocrat? Cultured young women, taking tea with the Galbraiths? Hornrimmed girls in dirty trenchcoats dotting the steps of Widener Library? The chocolate, peach and lime the CRIMSON warned of? Or Playboy's poll: "Cliffies are Merit Scholars who are good in bed" (thank God! the best of both worlds!). How could we know, when we packed our suitcases, packed those Villager skirts and shoes with matching pockerbooks, packed little dresses for the teas and sweat-shirts and jeans, how could...