Word: playboyism
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...first time I've ever been in love," The Playboy was saying in Rome. "I've found what I've been looking for in all the other women: freshness and innocence." As he spoke, he stroked the hands, hair and knees of the silent, smiling brunette by his side. After a career of elaborate bachelorhood spun out against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of beautiful faces and figures, Publisher Hugh Hefner, 43, was telling the press that his long-elusive heart had been captured at last. The girl was Barbara Benton, a svelte 19-year-old California coed...
Thus he has been canonized by the underground press and posterized by high-camp followers. Ginsberg has also come to be legitimized by a wide public (LIFE, Playboy, TV talk shows) and all but officially designated as a peculiar national treasure of sorts...
...winter, he launched a 147-ft. motor yacht and traded up from a Lockheed Jetstar to a white-and-green DC-9 jet in which he installed a lavish office. It was the first such plane in the world acquired for personal use; a second was sold later to Playboy Hugh Hefner...
...that this stuff against the Bird is political suppression. But through it all I truly believe that it's the hip cultural movement that's eventually got to save the South. The South so eagerly gobbles up everything that's shiny and new in America. Right now it's Playboy Clubs and Tastees. But they drink our rock music, too. That's where we'll start to get them--through what they think of as being their fun. As soon as we convince them that it's more fun on our side, they'll want to be like us, they...
Levy: How do you define the difference between a Playboy spread and a nude painting by Picasso or Goya...