Word: playboyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...though, a NASCAR car looks like any old car wearing a sweater of decals, and in NASCAR racing there is little psychic distance between the superstar and the fan in the stands. The popular image of the European Grand Prix circuit, with its dukes and duchesses and ascot-wearing playboy drivers, is as foreign to NASCAR as Bordeaux is to Bud. NASCAR in America is religion, replete with charismatic figures, creeds and commandments about how life should be lived...
...offer up the pay service, before those users float away like partygoers when the beer runs out. The deadbeats and moochers, of course, will leave anyway, and there are plenty of alternatives (albeit not so user-friendly) out there. But a sizable portion of those 64 million really read Playboy for the articles - er, use Napster for the selection and convenience - and will stick around because deep down, they'll feel better if they kick in a few bucks for the privilege of access to the world's largest record store...
...that I noticed, owing to my distinguishedness, but the students at Chico are very good-looking, as evidenced by the fact that the school was once rated the top party school in the nation by Playboy. This may explain why Bob Dole fell off a podium when he spoke here...
Thomas J. Watson Jr., a wealthy playboy, spent years working cushy jobs a his father's company, IBM. When not working--which was most of the time--he threw parties, dated models and traveled the world. After several years of this, Watson got serious, and once he rose to the position of CEO, Watson transformed the company from an office machine maker into the world's most important computer manufacturer. Alan Greenspan studied music at Juilliard for two years, then dropped out to play for a jazz quartet for a year before starting business school and then getting into finance...
...fact that her lawyer is named Howard Stern, or that Smith, 33, hasn't been attending the latest phase in the Texas trial over her late nonagenarian husband's fortune because of a hand injury she suffered while exercising. Instead, we're just going to air her grievance that Playboy, which discovered her and launched her career, has exploited her troubles by putting her on the cover of its current issue, running old nude photos of her inside. The magazine is also releasing the upcoming video The Complete Anna Nicole Smith: A True Rags to Riches Story, which...